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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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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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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'Humans' would definitely score really well on the Bechdel test - the one that tracks how well represented women are in drama.
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The sky was angry and shouting, and it reminded Andrés of how Mando and his father had shouted at each other and had drowned out the sound of love.
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My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.
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Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.
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You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate.
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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.
