Alfred Stieglitz Quotes
AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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We're just like a regular family.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
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It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.
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You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.
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The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
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I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.
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I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.
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AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself.
