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Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#almost #been #conditions #controlled #done

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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I understand that if I really need my hair to be nice, now I hire someone to do it, and I understand that putting on a pair of heels really makes a difference. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. ↗

— Louis Nizer

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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#i #make #me #music #one time

I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#any #deeply #did #european #felt

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#been #culture #established #expense #forgetting

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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