"Iâ€™m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If theyâ€™re so good, why donâ€™t they take pictures fullâ€”time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. Theyâ€™re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal."

-- Weegee

#Giving Up Quotes #Play Quotes #Shoes Quotes

“Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.”
“Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.”
“We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization”
“I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences.”

Source : Louis Agassiz (1882). “Report on the Florida Reefs”
“Then everything was still. Absolutely still.”

Source : Mary Pope Osborne, Will Osborne (2014). “Magic Tree House Fact & Fiction: Ghosts”, p.83, Random House Books for Young Readers
“There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.”

Source : "Will Ferrell, Adam McKay Celebrate 'The Other Guys'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 5, 2010.
“I bought original, real guns of the type we used in 'Tomb Raider' for security. Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house, and we do have one. And yes, I'd be able to use it if I had to ... If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them.”
“The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.”

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