Eliot Porter Quotes
Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
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Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.
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Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind's eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy.
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Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.
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Picture by picture, these criminals are being identified and arrested, and we will not let any phony concerns about human rights get in the way of the publication of these pictures and the arrest of these individuals.
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Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.
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If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.
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The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
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I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.
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He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you.
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I’ve always believed the Spirit puts people in our lives for a reason. I’m not sure if that applies to eleven-year-old carjackers, but we’ll work with what the Spirit sends.
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Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.
