Andre Bazin Quotes
Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.
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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.
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Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
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Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
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Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.
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All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
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Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like that. The theater world has always been a leader in diversity.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
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As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.
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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
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O, human love! thou spirit given,On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!
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Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.
