Anton Corbijn Quotes
I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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Full use of the inner senses is not even for me yet.
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I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.
