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I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.
Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.
Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.
But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.
You do not become a real pro in your field by doing certain things - you become a pro in your field by doing things in a certain way.
One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.
I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.
I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.
If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.
You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.
How do you make a dimmed light bright again? Remove the interference. How do you increase health in a dis-eased person? The same way!
If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?
Well, the problem is, it's not easy for me to think of ways to improve myself, because I'm pretty much one of the best people I know.
I feel like pain is the quickest way to relate to someone because everybody has been through that and everybody has had a heartbreak.
I'm not going to limit myself in ways to compose or how I should record. You just do what you can with what you've got at the moment.
One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
You can stick a fork in Barack Obama. Politically, he's done. The main way we can screw this up is if we choose the wrong Republican.
Happiness is not found, it is created. Happiness does not depend on all that we lack, but on the way in which we use all that we have
I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.
An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently
If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.
I don't believe in the Holy Trinity - but I do believe in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spook is just a friendly way of saying Holy Ghost.
Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.
It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.
Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes along the way.
I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.
I think Comedy Central and probably all channels are on their way toward being apps accessible on whatever the Roku of the future is.
I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.
In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.
We speak much of God, can talk of him, his ways, his works, his counsels, all the day long; the truth is, we know very little of him.
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.
The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.
Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.
With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.
GamerGate is about harassing, threatening and silencing women. Started that way, has been that way all along. Dont pretend otherwise.
The best way to explain it is that I'm not yearning anymore, on or off the course. I appreciate what I have. I feel like I'm blessed.
It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.
You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.
Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
You know how it feels when you're in love with somebody and you long to be with that person? God wants us to feel that way about Him.
Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession.
There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.
The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.