Ansel Adams Quotes
The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I have quite a foul mouth.
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One can say Senator Sanders should have more explicit antiracist policy within his racial justice platform, not just more general stuff, and still cast a vote for Senator Sanders and still feel that Senator Sanders is the best option that we have in the race.
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In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.
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We need to pick it up a little bit. One of our biggest strengths is that we come to play every day. We really need to notch it up and play better.
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I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.
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The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.
