Walker Evans Quotes
speaking in unknown languages, showing a disproportionate physical strength beyond one's natural capacity, the repulsion to sacred things, such as crucifix and prayers, and knowledge of events that have happened far away, in terms of times and places.
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Racism is a physical experience.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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The unknown is always frightening.
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Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.'
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
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'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
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The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.
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I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.
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The idea of the European community is never face a war again.
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There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.
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speaking in unknown languages, showing a disproportionate physical strength beyond one's natural capacity, the repulsion to sacred things, such as crucifix and prayers, and knowledge of events that have happened far away, in terms of times and places.
