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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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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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 lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that.
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And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?
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On the way back we were constantly under heavy shell fire and I had to double time them to get them through safely. There was nothing to be gained by having any more of them wounded or killed. They had surrendered to me, and it was up to me to look after them. And so I did.
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Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship with music, sometimes it needs all three and become a video projection.
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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.
