Karl Blossfeldt Quotes
The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
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I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.
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There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
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I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.
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If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.
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When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.
