W. Eugene Smith Quotes
My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I was given the task of I.P.L. Chairmanship which I tried to perform to the best of my abilities. The tournament was organised well despite all the controversies. The stadiums were jam-packed, which proved that I.P.L. was still popular.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
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Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
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Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
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I will always do what's best for the football team.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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Mucho de lo he dejado de hacer en mí, sigue haciéndose en mí, solo.
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My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.
