Edward Weston Quotes

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

Edward Weston

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• The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Important
  • Me
  • Influence

• I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Time
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  • Supportive

• Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Years
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  • Economists

• By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Nature
  • Person
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• I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Think
  • Human
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• I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Pretty
  • Want
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• I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • She
  • College
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• A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Up
  • God
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• Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Learning
  • Survival
  • Neither

• You have to have a plan. This isn't wishing. Instead of always being in a hopeful situation - like, 'I hope one day ...' - let's claim it now.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Hope
  • Day
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• Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Knowledge

• Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • World

• Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

  

  Abraham Polonsky

• Ideas kill people.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People

• I've been dreaming of a time whenThe English are sick to death of Labour and ToriesAnd spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes himAnd will salute him forever.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Time
  • Death
  • Forever

• I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with.

  

  Deke Richards

• I eat everything. I still like to go to Peter Luger once in a while.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten

• Yeah, I loved Ray Bradbury.

  

  Jeff Bridges

• I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

  

  Susan Sontag
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• I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

  

  Arthur Hailey
  • Education
  • Learning

• Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.

  

  Mary Cassatt
  • People
  • World
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• A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

  

  Robert James Ritchi

• Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

  

  Edward Weston