David Burnett Quotes
When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.
Quotes to Explore
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William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.
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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
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I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005.
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You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.
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I don't see the point in working just to be working.
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The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
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When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
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Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
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I'm a klutz, through and through.
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Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through.
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I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!
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If I'm reviewing a record, man, I play that record to death, which is ironic in a way because if I review a concert I feel very confident in myself, certainly at this point, and have for most of my career. You're only hearing it once and then you go to your typewriter and you write the review.
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This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.
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I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.
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I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time.
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When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.
