Berenice Abbott Quotes
I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism-real life-the now.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.
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You never know what the future brings.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
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I just had this New York thing. When I got there, I felt so at home. I said, 'This is where the crazy people go.' It's OK to be yourself in New York. In L.A., it's difficult.
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If there is one quality that I find is more essential to a successful and happy life than any other, it is empathy. It is at the core of family stability and love. I’ve never had a couple come to me and say, 'I want a divorce; my partner understands me.'
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
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I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism-real life-the now.
