Garry Winogrand Quotes
If I ever hear "Power to the people" again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, "All we are saying is give peace a chance." I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible; I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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I didn't plan on running for speaker, but I don't see anyone else stepping up. I know I'm the underdog.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.
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I am not against acting in a Hindi film, but I will take it up only if the story is right.
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Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets.
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If I ever hear "Power to the people" again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, "All we are saying is give peace a chance." I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible; I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.
