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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Most of the time, I do my own hair. I have good hair, so I don't need much. I don't need a hairdresser to come unless I want something very specific.
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It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body of the present. Remembering only encourages the growth of phantom limbs. And it is not simply what one remembers, or why, but what to do with what one remembers, which of the scattered pieces to carry forward, what to protect and preserve, what to leave behind.
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Unlike some viruses, we don't know what the natural reservoir is for Ebola. A lot of people think it's bats, but it's still very controversial; it could have been circulating in insects, in an environment, or in individuals.
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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
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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.
