Nobuyoshi Araki Quotes
Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made it black-and-white. Color is life; black-and-white is death. There was a ghost hidden in the invention of photography.
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.
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Girls run the world.
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A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.
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Lawyer even sounds like liar.
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I love Cher Lloyd's music. I didn't actually hear her music as I was creating my own, but it's cool that we have styles that are considered to be similar.
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My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.
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That weird dark energy - when I was a kid, I didn't know what it was. I just had to 'thrash it out,' as my mother called it. I became quite intolerable, creatively and artistically, with other people. I wanted nothing more than to be part of a group, and yet I couldn't help alienating people.
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An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration of force at one place, while the minimum force necessary is used elsewhere to prepare the success of the concentration.
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You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
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Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made it black-and-white. Color is life; black-and-white is death. There was a ghost hidden in the invention of photography.
