Ansel Adams Quotes
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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I lack only $1 billion to make the world a better world.
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To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.
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Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
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Her respectful tone sounded almost sincere.
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Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving - HOW NOT TO DO IT.
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I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.
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I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at Roc Nation asking me what I was up to. He asked if I'd been to America, and I said, 'No.' Then he said, 'I'm putting you on a flight to New York tomorrow.'
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A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.
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It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
