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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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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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I don't think it's wise to shut down the government.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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Most of my friends, growing up, were upper-middle-class white kids, so it was a different reality at home both culturally and linguistically. It created a lot of insecurities for me, but it also did a lot of amazing things that I didn't know were happening at the time.
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There are certainly actors who I felt rivalries with, but then, as time goes on, you realize that you have to keep your eyes on your own paper because everybody's doing their own work.
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A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
