"To make pictures big is to make them more powerful"

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#Powerful Quotes #Bigs Quotes

“People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.”
“I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question as I revealed before the court but that I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.”

Source : "Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 334), 1984.
“Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.”
“As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.”
“Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them the power to force all those engaged in production to comply with their orders. It forces all those engaged in production to the utmost exertion in the service of the consumers. It makes competition work. He who best serves the consumers profits most and accumulates riches.”
“I have to say I have the most experience. I'm a veteran when it comes to that, [my brothers] they're still learning. They have lots of potential. They're like first-round picks right now in the game, they still have to develop.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.”

Source : Ken Doherty (1964). “Modern training for running”, Prentice Hall
“Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.”

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