"I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being."

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Philippe Halsman

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“A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and not by a wish to benefit society, nevertheless, mathematics as a whole does benefit society.”
“I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.”
“I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington.”
“I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.”
“When people come to me, they come usually for spiritual blessings, they come for the heart to be opened, because if it's not, we're not going to be able to channel our way through the course, and I think that most people know that there is that understanding that something has to open within us before we begin to resolve our problems, and so it is at all levels that they come.”
“Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.”
“Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.”
“The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every single decision.”

Source : "Interview with Hooman Majd: US-Iran Relations in the Age of the Ayatollah". Interview with Jon Letman, mronline.org. October 4, 2010.

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