Ansel Adams Quotes
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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I have a hyper personality.
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A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.
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Every fight and every loss taught me something.
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There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
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Leave people better than you found them.
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I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.
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The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
