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“In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form... If even a minimal confidence in photography does not survive, it is questionable whether many pictures will have meaning anymore, not only as symbols but as evidence.”
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“I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?”
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“I always felt that's why people buy records anyhow is because they get that vicarious excitement and thrill that they don't get unless they buy your record.”
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“China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.”
Source : "IMAX to Build 75 Screens in China Over Three Years" by Jonathan Landreth, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 24, 2011.
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“Learning patience takes a lot of patience!”
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“If you're not really having fun then there's no point of really trying.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as their primary medium, won't even know what consensus reality is.”
Source : R. U. Sirius, Andrei Codrescu (2000). “The revolution: quotations from revolution party chairman R.U. Sirius”
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“A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, 'Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.' I was like, 'Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!'”