Eugene Richards Quotes
...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents of genocide, by hunger. A more realistic assessment of photography's value is to point out that it is illustrative of what's going on, that it provides a record of history, that photographs can prompt dialogue.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.
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Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.
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The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.
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If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
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I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
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Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
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I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.
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The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
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...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents of genocide, by hunger. A more realistic assessment of photography's value is to point out that it is illustrative of what's going on, that it provides a record of history, that photographs can prompt dialogue.
