Garry Winogrand Quotes
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
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The downside to making movies at a gallop like we did with 'Wish You Were Here' is that we're shooting four or five scenes in a day, and it's very exhilarating, but you worry at the end of the day that you missed some details because you were moving too quick, and you just gotta trust and be ready straightaway.
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That's the way I like it because there's no time to have nerves about it. You just run out and do it.
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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.
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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
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A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
