Sally Mann Quotes
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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I love to write.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
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MC Lyte definitely embraces me. Jada Pinkett Smith embraces me. Those are two people that I can call and get advice. Those are two people that will call me to see what I'm doing.
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I know it sounds very cliché and not very exciting, but if I'm outdoors - in the wild or the ocean or the forest - it inspires me.
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American exceptionalism is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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I couldn't deal with a normal life.
