Catherine Opie Quotes
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
Quotes to Explore
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I love ABC Family!
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.
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I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
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In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.
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Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
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The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.
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Over the years, I've learnt how to strike a balance between both my lives and give quality time to my passion as well as to my family. Yes, it is tiring at times, and every working woman goes through the phase.
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A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.
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A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.
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I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.
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Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.
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I really admire people who concern themselves more with how they perceive the world rather than how the world perceives them. I think, as an artist, it's very important to do that. You can limit yourself a lot if you spend too much time caring about what people think of you.
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The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
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Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally.
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There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand a poem is like trying to acquire an old-fashioned skill.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
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The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
