Garry Winogrand Quotes
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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I had such a supportive family, and I think that affects your life in such a profound way; it fortifies you completely.
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There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.
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Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.
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I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.
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I hope to literally change the world with Black Girls Code by changing the paradigm which produces the current monolithic ecosystem in technology.
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Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.
