"I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try."

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Source : "Gordon Parks, Lagandary Photographer & Filmmaker Dies At 93". Jet magazine, Volume 109, No. 12, March 27, 2006.

Gordon Parks

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“a normal human being ... does not exist.”

Source : Karen Horney (2013). “The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time”, p.27, Routledge
“In the service of the Lord it is not where but how you serve.”
“My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.”
“An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.”

Source : Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.20, Black Rose Books Ltd.
“We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.”
“Did you ever see a one eyed woman cry? You know the saddest thing about the woman, the tears don't come out just one eye.”
“I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.”
“The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with all its natural blemishes, he is as presumptuous as if he shouted, 'What a face. Hide it.' which would never do, although it is analogous to what landscape painters are doing every day.”

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