Alexander Gardner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.
-- Alexander Gardner

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Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.
-- Alexander Gardner

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A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.
-- Alexander Gardner

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To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.
You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.
One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.
This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
It's a really big struggle for me to write a song. Songs take either 30 seconds for me to write or a year or two to piece together, depending on the song and how I'm feeling on any given day. I don't really like to write music at all unless I am completely unbothered by touring.
The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

Alexander Gardner famous quotes

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