Ansel Adams Quotes
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
Quotes to Explore
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'
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I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
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Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.
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'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
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It is absurd in general relativity to speak of a universe in which nothing happens.
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For me, I do everything all the way. When I love my wife, I love her all the way. This isn't a sales pitch; this isn't a tagline. You'll see us in our 80s, and we'll be sitting together on a rocking chair. That's how it is. That's how it ends for us.
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I need to make sure that when I'm running out to the drugstore I'm not wearing a Biore strip or something. Not that I expect anyone to recognize me, but on the off chance they do, I just don't want to embarrass myself.
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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
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The good guy doesn't always finish first.
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Many women are heads of households. Many are the primary wage earners for their families.
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We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
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Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
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Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.
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Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.
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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
