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.

Alfred Stieglitz

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Necessary

• Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • World
  • Real
  • Progress

• 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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Country
  • Greatest
  • Grit

• 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.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Book
  • Speed

• The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Political
  • Justice
  • Israel

• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • God
  • Faith
  • Sister

• There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

  

  Rachel Field
  • Reality
  • Pain
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Win

• Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • World
  • Best
  • Beer

• I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Enemy
  • Will
  • Worst

• Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • House
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sports

• David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Work
  • Been
  • Netflix

• 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.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • School
  • Dream

• 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.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• God primes the pump of obligation.

  

  A. P. Martinich
  • God
  • Obligation
  • Pump

• I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Man
  • View
  • Point Of View

• The only movie I can watch on a loop, over and over, is 'Help', the Beatles movie. It's so funny and irreverent and great.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Help

• I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.

  

  Chris Christie
  • People
  • America
  • Balance

• If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised by believers who feel excluded from a predominantly secular public world.

  

  Alan Wolfe
  • America
  • Religious
  • Nonbelievers

• 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.

  

  Alfred Stieglitz
  • America
  • Dying