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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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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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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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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I know when to have fun, but when it comes to my music, I'm really serious about my career.
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I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.
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From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.
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I connect much more with theatre actors than with cinema actors - insofar as you can speak of 'cinema actors' in Mexico, because there isn't a big film industry.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual.
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I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt how to give myself a bit of waist by optical illusion. For this, bring on the belts.
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All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
