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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We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.
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It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.
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Once when Harry asked Ed why they didn't go back to Toledo, Ed looked at him with that smartass squint and asked, 'You ever been to Toledo?'
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Uber is a company that is redefining the transportation industry on a global basis; to be part of that story is something that is interesting and would be a real privilege.
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When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
