Andre Kertesz Quotes
I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
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Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.
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All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.
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If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
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Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.
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I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.
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I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
