Brassaï Quotes
My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.
Quotes to Explore
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
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The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
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Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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Often you can see power lines running alongside the street. Unless current is flowing through them, there is no light. The power line is you and I! The current is God! We have the power to allow the current to flow through us and thus to generate the light of the world: JESUS - or to refuse to be used and, thus, allow the darkness to spread.
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Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.
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Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the 'I'm a Fraud' phase. You go through the 'I'll Never Finish' phase. And every once in a while you think, 'What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it's received as such?'
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I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.
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Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice.
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My ambition was always to show aspects of daily life as if we were seeing them for the first time.
