Walker Evans Quotes
Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled matter-something vital that we cannot build out of these parts. There is surely something else, some piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and that owes no homage to the sun.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different demographic when it comes to the audiences. I have women who come out and support my movies, and that is a huge demographic for me, which is great because some actors don't have a female base at all.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.
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That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
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I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.
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“I think you’d find out more truth by just walking down the street with a musical instrument than by looking at any of the news outlets.
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Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled matter-something vital that we cannot build out of these parts. There is surely something else, some piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and that owes no homage to the sun.
