Eliot Porter Quotes
Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.Eliot Porter
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
Barry Humphries -
Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
V. S. Naipaul -
I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
Rachel Sklar -
I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
Samuel Alito -
Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
Viktor Orban -
I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
Paige VanZant
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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
Adam Pally -
Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
Lady Gaga -
When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.
Lady Gaga -
If you do something wrong, it's going to be all over the place. Not only does that go for me, but anyone in here. You just really have to be aware of it.
Patrick Kane -
I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.
Patrick Duffy -
If I don't explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I'm doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there's things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.
Narendra Modi -
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
Ian Hacking -
I'm not really a femme fatale.
Carla Bruni -
It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
Vincent Bugliosi -
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change.
Francine Busby
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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Karl Lagerfeld -
If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.
Paul Morrissey -
It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.
Warren R. Austin -
I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
Taylor Swift -
Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.
Eliot Porter