Ansel Adams Quotes
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.
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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
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I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody, I have some money 'cause I just got paid. How I wish I had someone to talk to, I'm in an awful way.
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Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.
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Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison, and then waiting around for the rat to die.
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Je parvins à faire s'évanouir dans mon esprit toute l'espérance humaine.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.
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If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can't write every line of code. I can't write any lines of code.
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Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
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There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.
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I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.
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I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the camera. And then I know I'm on the right track.
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Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
