Ansel Adams Quotes
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I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
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Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.
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The young are going to be the messengers of this continued strengthening of the diversity in America.
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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
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American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.
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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
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Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore.
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There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
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The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.
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Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.
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Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.
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If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?
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As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.
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We probably didn't even consider becoming a guitar band again. We used to be a guitar band when we started out and we've been there. The sounds on this record are really exciting and expressive of the lyrics and the music.
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People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.
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Some suppose these parks to have been reminiscences of a tradition of Eden: at any rate a place of the sort was called a paradise. And so, by adopting the word, Christ appears to indicate that at death we pass, as it were, into the wondrous garden that surrounds the Father’s house, but not into the house itself.
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If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.
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Values are goals which behavior strives to realize. Any activity that is oriented towards an end is a value-oriented action. To the ancient Greeks, their culture was guided by an attainment of ‘the good life.’ In the early days of Christianity, the ‘good life’ was shifted from this lifetime into the next. Newtonian science and the modern era brought values under rational scrutiny, and a desire for empirical order. Modern capitalism introduced the value of ‘good’ as more production per capita, and ‘better’ as even more production. There is nothing in the sphere of culture which would exempt us from the realm of values—no facts floating around, ready to be grasped without valuations and expectations.
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People can't help what topics cut them deep. It all depends on who's inferring - and what the contexts of their lives are at the time.
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My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.
