Ralph Gibson Quotes
You see, I'm not interested in mediocrity in photography. I'm not interested in selling cat shit to dogs. I just want to do my own thing. If people like my work, all the better. If they don't, too bad.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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Peace is its own reward.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.
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Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
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We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
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I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
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Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.
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I hate the past - especially my own past.
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The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.
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Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.
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I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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The Washed Out thing happened really quickly, and I wasn't really actively promoting the songs. I didn't think of them as any more than demos, really, and it sort of became a thing on its own.
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I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.
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To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.
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I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.
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If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become.
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Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
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You see, I'm not interested in mediocrity in photography. I'm not interested in selling cat shit to dogs. I just want to do my own thing. If people like my work, all the better. If they don't, too bad.
