Cecil Beaton Quotes
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.
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I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
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I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.
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Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.
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We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.
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For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
