Edward Burtynsky Quotes
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
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A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.
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An example of my average week would be the gym on Monday; Tuesday will be a technical session. I practice running and high jump on Thursday and then have another technical session at the weekend.
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It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.
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I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge.
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I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese.
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Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.
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Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.
