Black Quotes - Page 29

• It was a black and white film [at first]. And then it changed to colour film, and I was surprised and culture shocked when I was six or seven years old. And then HD, then 3D now. So what's going? What's coming next? It's so exciting.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Black And White, Years, Culture

  Source: collider.com

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• I started to try to be a colorist, although secretly thinking of myself as somewhat of a black and whiteist.

  Susan Rothenberg

  Black And White, Thinking, Trying

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• Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).

  Matthew Collings

  Successful, Color, White

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• You must never allow something that happened to you to become a morbidly treasured heirloom that you carry, show people, put back in its black velvet pouch and then tuck back into your jacket where you can keep it close to your heart.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Heart, People, Velvet

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• One movie I think is just terrific is 'Bernie,' with Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. That was a great surprise to me - so witty, so entertaining, a true story, and I'm not a great Jack Black fan, but he's great in it. I think it's a gem.

  Robert Osborne

  Witty, Thinking, Fans

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• It's ugly to compare but the greatest was Pele. If we believe that God made ​​man, the "black" Pelé he made him perfect. He gave him everything. He lacked nothing, header, physical power, dribbling, finishing, inspiration, genius, temper, vision, goal. Everything.

  Cesar Luis Menotti

  Believe, Inspiration, Men

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• Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

  Shelby Steele

  Hurt, Children, Past

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• No one, and the liberal cognoscenti least of all, wants to look at why, after decades of throwing money at a rotting educational establishment and years of racial preferences black students are worse off than ever.

  Wesley Pruden

  Educational, Years, Looks

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• Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Stars, Self, Mind

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• Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable - and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green. This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.

  Adam Michnik

  Color, World, Green

  "We, the Traitors". www.worldpress.org. March 28, 2003.

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• The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Stars, Dark

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• ...an excellent player, but he [Ian Wright] does have a black side.

  Gary Lineker

  Player, Doe, Sides

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• Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.

  Vidya Balan

  Coffee, Cutting, Trying

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• What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.

  Eugene Jarecki

  War, Drug, Progress

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• What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.

  Bill Maher

  Law, People, Voting

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• Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made it black-and-white. Color is life; black-and-white is death. There was a ghost hidden in the invention of photography.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Photography, Black And White, Reality

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• Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Black And White, Color, White

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• Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

  Allan Sekula

  Black And White, Use, Telling The Truth

  Allan Sekula, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (2002). “Fish story”

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• In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your experiences, your knowledge, and your fantasy, to put colors into black and white.

  Anders Petersen

  Photography, Black And White, Color

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• Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

  James Altucher

  Art, Honesty, Compassion

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• ‎Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.

  Hank Green

  Believe, Asking, Sometimes

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• During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.

  Geezer Butler

  Style, Horizon, Firsts

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• Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound.

  Henry Rollins

  Voice, Guitar, World

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• Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of proof in tonight's black, black sky that it can possible come.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Sky, Waiting, Dawn

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• I never watched the Oscars. Come on, it's a fashion show . . . What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars? Show me one. And they don't recognize comedy, and you don't see a lot of black people nominated, so why should I watch it?

  Chris Rock

  Fashion, Men, People

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