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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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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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 was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.
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Supposing you knew - not by sight or by instinct, but by sheer intellectual knowledge, as I know the truth of a mathematical proposition - that what we call empty space was full, crammed. Not with lumps of what we call matter like hills and houses, but with things as real - as real to the mind.
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There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.
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You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.
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The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization, and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.
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I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.
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Death is a reality, but life is a reality also. You got to live at this time in your life like you've never lived before. And therefore you've got to find those values in your life that fulfill what you need to do. Now, what is it you need to do?
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All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
