Wilhelm Rontgen Quotes
For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)
Quotes to Explore
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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I grew up in New York.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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I've always been a dreamer.
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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.
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I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.
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My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.
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Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.
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Within this very myopic perspective, immigrants fill the labor slots that need filling, and those foreign-born workers play no other role in our country’s cultural, political, social, or economic life. Our children’s schools are unaffected, the welfare state is untouched, the balance of political power is unchanged.
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I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.
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For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.
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For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)
