Ed Kashi Quotes
I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people's minds.
Quotes to Explore
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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I love British bands.
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I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.
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You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
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For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.
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Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't use it as an excuse to reject our tools; rather, we should decide that we need to make better tools to solve the problems caused by the initial tools in a progressive wave of innovation.
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I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
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I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.
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It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news 'Police believe this is the act of an isolated nut.' On the internet there are no isolated nuts; whatever kind of nut you are, you can find fifty nuts in the world exactly like you.
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Becoming a mother has been the best thing ever for me. It's become my life's work. Not just parenting, but sharing information and encouraging other women to be receptive to the basic nature of motherhood.
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If the assembled company rags you for a failing, you can usually play up to it for comic effect: it's the failing they don't mention that you have to watch out for.
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I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people's minds.
