Weegee Quotes
Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.
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The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.
