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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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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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 Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.
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All would have transformed us if we had the courage to be what we are.
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You need to listen to the people experiencing the problems, and their ideas need to crowd out the words of the 'can't be done-ers.'
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I cry in movies a lot, and over books.
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A copy of Skeptic magazine ostentatiously tucked under his arm, the Darwin fish on the bumper of his car proudly signals his group identification with other members of the herd of “independent thinkers.” He “knows” that there is no God, and he isn’t sure whether even the thoughts he thinks he’s having are real or not. But he is pretty sure that his “selfish genes” and/or his “memes” in some way manipulate his every action, and quite certain that there’s nothing questionable per se about “marrying” another man, strangling an unwanted disabled infant, or sodomizing a goat or a corpse (if that’s “what you’re into”). Despite his hatred of religion, he thinks global warming a greater danger than Islamic terrorism, and whether “meat is murder” is a proposition he thinks eminently worthy of consideration.
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The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
