Ansel Adams Quotes
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.
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Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel.
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Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
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Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.
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As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want.
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Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.
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The smell of the ocean was stronger now, rank and enveloping, as if the bottom of the sea had turned over and littered the shore with its dead.
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
