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Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
Duane Michals
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I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.


Helena Christensen
I really prefer light-eyed models, They photograph more easily. Of course, I come from a light-eyed background, so maybe that influenced my taste.
Eileen Ford
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
Walid Jumblatt
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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.


Richard Avedon
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!


Robert Browning
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Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.
Nick Cave
The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
Jim Bunning
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
Rutherford B. Hayes
I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.
Eric Cantona
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I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.


Keith Miller
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No one's playing records anymore, so find your favorite and frame it, then get rid of the rest - try selling or donating them.
Niecy Nash
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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone Weil
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If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.
David Cameron
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I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.
Shia LaBeouf
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But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.
Robert Mueller
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What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
Eve Arnold
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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
Karl Jaspers
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Adam Smith
The strongest moments in my life are when I'm filming. It's an adventure. As an actor I try to seduce someone, try to share something. The rest of my time is spent exploring experiences with women.
Jean-Pierre Leaud
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