Nick Brandt Quotes
You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.
Nick Brandt
Quotes to Explore
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Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.
Naveen Jain
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
Carlton Cuse
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There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.
Wadah Khanfar
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
Imelda Marcos
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My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
Faye Marsay
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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
Nat Turner
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We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.
Vanessa Kerry
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Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
Barry Jenkins
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
Salman Rushdie
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Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept.
A. S. Byatt
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I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.
Loretta Lynn
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But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.
T. H. White
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O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!
William Shakespeare
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I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still a spirit beautiful and bright, yet I am I, who long to be lost as a light is lost in light.
Sara Teasdale
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Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
Antonio Porchia
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Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms. As for the victims, the government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.
Nick Brandt
