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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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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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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We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.
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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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...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way - no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way - it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.
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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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Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
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If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know.
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If you feel like the beginning of your history is rooted in slavery, that really, I think, messes with your sense of self, your self-esteem, and your self-worth.
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To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.
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You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.
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All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
