Ansel Adams Quotes
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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I can always go back to education.
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I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
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The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it. ... As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.
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I don't want people to think you have to look a certain way or be a certain mold to be able to be a quarterback.
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I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.
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People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
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Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on a Sunday.
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I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.
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I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
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It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
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Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
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The only way I get a leading role in a studio picture is if Ryan Gosling can't play it, which is clearly the case with 'Selma.' If this was a non-colour-specific character, it wouldn't be me. It just wouldn't.
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You don't take a picture, you make a picture.
