August Sander Quotes
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.
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Kleenex would have made a mint today.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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By the time we've made it, we've had it.
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
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The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.
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I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.
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A photograph can look any way.
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I know what it's like to feel hopeless and to feel like you're not good enough just because of where you're from. I know what it's like to be profiled and to be abused by the police. I know what it's like to be racially profiled, treated unjustly and abused by the police just because of how you look.
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I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.
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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
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We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
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Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
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When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!
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I mean, if you think about - if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It's the Post Office that's always having problems.
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I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.
