Brassaï Quotes
The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist.
Quotes to Explore
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After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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Girls run the world.
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I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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People ask where writers get ideas.Take my advice. Some cool, clear night, drive to a country place where city lights don’t block your view. Turn off the car lights. Get out and look up. And see our real neighborhood.
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It is time to step back from the apartheid brink...
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A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.
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I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.
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I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.
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I want to see Black Lives Matter be able to ultimately reduce law enforcement funding.
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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
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I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.
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I have a picture of me with Lady Antebellum, when they released their first single and I was at CMA Fest as a fan. I'm in flower-power shorts and a headband - so not cute - and I'm fan-girling next to Hillary. I couldn't believe I was standing next to her.
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I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
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Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance.
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When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.
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I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be. So now that reality is antithetical to what I want, how I can feel into it and act skillfully rather than react? How can I choose my best course of action while not pretending I don't have the pain, or running away from the pain, or blaming someone else for the circumstances of my life?
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My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store.
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Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
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Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public posturing.
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The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist.
