Garry Winogrand Quotes
When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end, so it doesn't mean a thing. It's not going to make me do better work or worse work as I can see it now.
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
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We used to get arrested every other week - that is, the old man would get arrested.
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When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end, so it doesn't mean a thing. It's not going to make me do better work or worse work as I can see it now.
