Ansel Adams Quotes
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
Quotes to Explore
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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I never fall in love.
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What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.
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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
