Ansel Adams Quotes
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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Maybe he's growing up.Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.
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I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.
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Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.
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A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
