Black And White Quotes - Page 5

• I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

  Norman McLaren

  Color, Film, Knows

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• Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

  Jesse Jackson

  God, Yellow, Sight

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• The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

  Stuart Pearce

  Football, Mean, Parent

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• I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Woods, Scene

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• That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

  Zakk Wylde

  Life, Color, Issues

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• A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Should Have, Racism, Groups

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• Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

  Keith Richards

  Zoom, Glorious, White

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• Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.

  Penn Jillette

  People, Straightforward, Juggling

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

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• I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.

  Joe Manganiello

  Halloween, Kids, Dark

  "Joe Manganiello Exclusive Interview TRUE BLOOD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 24, 2010.

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• The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.

  Solomon Asch

  Education, Strong, Intelligent

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• I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

  Heidi Klum

  Husband, Yang, Knows

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• Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Sides, Morality

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1964). “The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism”, Signet

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• Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Fun, Color, Very Sad

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Views, Heritage

  "In the beginning" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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• Honestly when you do it black and white, you really have to work your ass off. Because if you make it, make it good. Otherwise, don't pretend.

  Rie Rasmussen

  Ass, Honestly, Ifs

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• If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.

  Madeleine Albright

  Expectations, Intelligence, Would Be

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• back from when they watched black and white TV and hunted dinosaurs.

  Rick Riordan

  Dinosaurs, Tvs, Hunted

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• Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Quality, Gelatin

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• There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

  Bob Dylan

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, December 13, 1963.

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• Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's not lit for black and white. So, it's a tricky thing. If you're going do black and white, you better remember to separate things with light, because color ain't gonna be there.

  David Lynch

  Light, Color, People

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Christopher Bollen and Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

  Hans Arp

  Communication, Writing, Blue

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• For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Home, Comfort, Possession

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Daniel Falk, Friedrich von Müller (1833). “Characteristics of Goethe: From the German of Falk, Von Müller, &c., with Notes, Original and Translated, Illustrative of German Literature”, p.246

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• They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Two, Phrases, Lovers

  The Defendant "A Defence of Rash Vows" (1902)

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• Prince William looks good in uniform and Man-at-Hackett black and white tie (he has grown up wearing it constantly); less certain in his suits, which sometimes look borderline archaic; and variable in casual. But completely comfortable in the Sloane uniform of non-designer jeans and chocolate-brown suede loafers. He'll look fine in Boden.

  Peter York

  Men, Jeans, Ties

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• The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Color, Drawing

  Aristotle, George Maximilian Anthony Grube, Donald J. Zeyl (1958). “On Poetry and Style”, p.14, Hackett Publishing

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