#thing

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

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No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. ↗

— Hilary Putnam

#believe #beyond #cannot #controversy #merely

I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been. ↗

— Randy Quaid

#any #anything #been #further #i

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. ↗

— Pythagoras

#evil #good #human #human life #life

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal. ↗

— Randy Quaid

#actor #anything #could #criminal #getting

One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country. ↗

— Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

#catch #circumstance #country #form #get

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#bedside #breathing #cast #children #day

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

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Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing. ↗

— Duane Michals

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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. ↗

— Man Ray

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