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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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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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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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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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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When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything.
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Don't make things too complicated. Try to relax, enjoy every moment, get used to everything.
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I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing landscapes I felt insecure about painting in this style, and the dreams were like positive omens for me, and I've done a few paintings that were exact replicas of images that came to me in dreams.
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I've always loved teaching acting. I think it helps me to kind of get back to basics. It's like a refresher course for me as well, so in a sense, I'm hopefully learning as much as my students are - or at least discovering or re-discovering as much as they are. I find that when I teach, I'm reminded of my own sort of failings. I'm reminded of where I sometimes keep going wrong.
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I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.
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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.
