Elad Lassry Quotes
I think there's a general confusion that my work is about types of photography. But really that's just a tool to introduce some questions I have about seeing. What happens when all of these conditions and structures and histories and cultures and tools you have around you begin to fail? On the one hand there is an engagement with histories and cultures, and on the other, there is this very lonesome space of actually coming to terms with seeing.
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.
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Why am I a closet country music fan? Because I grew up being into rock, and I always thought that country music was, like, something my mom was into. Like, it wasn't cool. It wasn't happening. They were all singing about driving around in their trucks looking for Lulu.
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Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.
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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
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I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner.
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'Close to the Edge' is the album where we first attempted to do the extra-long-form piece of music, having one song taking up the whole side of a piece of vinyl.
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People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.
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As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.
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One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 - you can't actually get to be commissioned to do certain types of building until you've already built that type of building. So it seems to be incredibly hard to get going.
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My wife speaks very good French. She said she would miss lots of things in the U.S., but we can't live there if Trump's president.
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But there is a scary side to acting for me, because I have always wanted to develop rather than plateau out. When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.
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Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market economy... This is the only natural economy, the only kind that makes sense, the only one that can lead to prosperity, because it is the only one that reflects the nature of life itself.
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I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.
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I had no idea how I wanted to get into photography, but I just knew I wanted to do it.
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Our Army is filled with women and men who care and who are in a position to change and improve the conditions under which we serve
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Usually, when I'm at a festival with a movie that I'm in, I'm in and out in 24 hours.
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I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!
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I think there's a general confusion that my work is about types of photography. But really that's just a tool to introduce some questions I have about seeing. What happens when all of these conditions and structures and histories and cultures and tools you have around you begin to fail? On the one hand there is an engagement with histories and cultures, and on the other, there is this very lonesome space of actually coming to terms with seeing.
