Simple Quotes - Page 21

• It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun.

  David Douglas Duncan

  Fun, Typewriters, Cameras

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• I never felt in competition with anybody in war photography. You're lucky to get your ass in and out again. It's as simple as that. It's the easiest photography in the world to shoot somebody who's been shot up. It doesn't take a genius. That's easy. The only thing you need to know is your photography. Get in and if you're lucky get out. And get as close as you can get.

  David Douglas Duncan

  Photography, War, Competition

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• I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness.

  Irving Penn

  Lying, Fall, Light

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• If, since the start, I'd played well and put in some good matches it would all have been too simple.

  Nicolas Anelka

  France, Wells, Has Beens

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• My whole approach to marriage is simple: my wife will do something that drives me insane, I won't say anything, and then, later, I'll die of cancer.

  Dana Gould

  Cancer, Wife, Say Anything

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• It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People just get into that frame of mind of you doing impressions. It can take a minute or two for an audience to catch on when you aren't doing one.

  Frank Caliendo

  Two, People, Mind

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• As a comedian, I have the gift of looking at something a bit differently and making it funny. I'm not sure why I can do that, but that's as simple as I can put it.

  Henry Cho

  Comedian, Not Sure, Can Do

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• Do what makes you happy! It's that simple.

  Gia Allemand

  Make You Happy

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• One thing is that life's great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what's been lost and freeing what's been enslaved .

  Bill Hybels

  Nudge, Cooperation, Mysterious

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• I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition.

  Doug Aitken

  Ideas, Used, Banality

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• I really believe in having projects which in fact can't be carried out, or which are so simple that anyone could work them out. I once made four spots on the map of Holland, without knowing where they were. Then I found out how to get there and went to the place and took a snapshot. Quite stupid. Anybody can do that.

  Jan Dibbets

  Stupid, Believe, Knowing

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• The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.

  Luigi Ghirri

  Art, Obvious Things, Light

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• I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.

  Anders Petersen

  Long, Care, Want

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• [I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things by returning to a simple method, one that photography had from the beginning of its existence.

  Thomas Struth

  Photography, Perception, Investing

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• I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Song, Writing

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• I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

  Dave Grohl

  Play, People, Appreciate

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• Simplicity is all. Simple logic, simple arguments, simple visual images. If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument. There's nothing long-winded about 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Long, Simplicity, Phrases

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• Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.

  Zhuangzi

  Mind, Infinite, Wander

  Zhuangzi (2000). “Chuan Tsu: Inner Chapters”

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• In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away the most changes are the result of mistakes pure and simple slips of the pen, accidental omissions, inadvertent additions, misspelled words, blunders of one sort or another.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Christian, Mistake, Omission

  Bart D. Ehrman (2008). “Whose Word is It?: The Story Behind who Changed the New Testament and why”, p.55, A&C Black

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• By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Guiding Principles, Ebay, Growth

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• The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

  Groucho Marx

  Shoes, Alps, Lord

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• True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.

  Eckhart Tolle

  True Happiness, Found

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.12, New World Library

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• It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get published. But, there is no secret.

  Dennis Lehane

  Writing, Secret, Depth

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• No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones, practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.

  Adrienne Rich

  Exercise, Goes On, Chance

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