Karl Blossfeldt Quotes
My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world.
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
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Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'
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Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
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We are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.
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I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.
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Our awareness gap and the fuzziness about how people might understand Ulta today is a ripe opportunity for us as we think about going forward. I imagine this is like almost relaunching the brand of Ulta.
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Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.
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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
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I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.
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Just like football, business is a game of inches, where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing.
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Kanye didn't sign me to hold my hand and walk me through my career. He signed me because he believed in me as an artist and gave me a co-sign. I didn't see that at first. I saw it as him about to hold my hand, and I'm about to be the biggest artist because he's the biggest artist, you know?
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The more you style, the better you get. Don't give up. At a certain point, the magic happens.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.
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My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world.
