Ansel Adams Quotes
I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
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When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It's like getting a gold star in Super Mario Brothers and junk. I hear the music when I hear the n-word. I get right into it; I get really into it. You can do anything. You could be in a fancy restaurant - just start throwing poop at the walls. People be like, 'What are you doing?' 'Someone called him the n-word.
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Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish.
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Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.
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One day isn't dramatic, but that was the median. For the more severely ill, the net reduction was three days, and for those treated early, it was 2 to 3 days.
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I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.
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A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
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I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.
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It's just absolutely unprecedented. No one has ever heard of something like this, ... There are a lot of communities we are getting information from the highway patrol and sheriff's offices that have literally been obliterated.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity
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I have no law degree. I never had a law degree. I don't know where that got started.
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Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
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The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.
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Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.
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I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.
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It was only after I untied my girlfriend from being face down on the bed that I learned her screaming, 'Asshole!' was a statement about my character and not an invitation or request.
