Ansel Adams Quotes
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
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When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
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I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit - a reputation, character.
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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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I, for my part, do not conceive an act as having causes, and I consider myself satisfied when I have found in it not its ‘factors’ but the general themes which it organizes: for our decisions gather into new syntheses and on new occasions the leitmotif that governs our life
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.
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[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
