"The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art."

-- Russell Lynes

#Art Quotes #Book Quotes #Car Quotes

“I certainly believe that God did create the world, yeah, absolutely I believe that.”
“Fall down seven times, get up eight.”
“It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you.”
“If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.”
“Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase black representation in the Republican Party by appeals based on race. Whatever the name- 'African American Outreach' or 'Black Republicans for Bush'- any effort to attract blacks or any other ethnic group to the Republican party, based on explicit or implicit appeals to race or ethnic identity, are not only a waste of time and resources, but are also misguided and potentially quite damaging to the nation.”
“When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.”
“As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.”
“Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today”

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