Ansel Adams Quotes
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
Quotes to Explore
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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Always stay true to yourselves.
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Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage ( including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.
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At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.
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Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
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A lot of people don't know the passion I have for Asian American cinema.
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Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
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The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.
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When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
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The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things.
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I still watch TGIF shows like 'Family Matters.'
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The TPP supports economic growth and job creation in America while expanding access for American goods and services in the Asia-Pacific region.
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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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It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.
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The reality of America is mass-market stupidity.
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I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.
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All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
