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• When I got the camera on the shoulder, they give me a nickname. They call me 'the tripod' because I'm kind of short and kind of strong. So if I take the camera and I lock myself, you think that you're on a crane.

  Luc Besson

  Strong, Thinking, Giving

  "Sundance Interview: Luc Besson and Rie Rasmussen of Angel-A". Interview, www.firstshowing.net. February 6, 2007.

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• I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There's leisure for thinking, nothing to do Often I carry an ancient book Sometimes I climb a rock pavilion To look down a thousand foot precipice Overhead are swirling clouds A cold moon chilly cold My body feels like a flying crane

  Hanshan

  Book, Thinking, Moon

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• Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used to be so proud of is turned into out of control develpoment.

  Robert Redford

  Running, Culture, Heritage

  "Robert Redford: We Have to Act on Climate Change Without Washington". Interview with Vivienne Walt, time.com. December 6, 2015.

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• I looked up, but had to crane my head back, leaving the features above me wrong-side up. The clear green eyes were the same, and, unfortunately, so was the spiky blond hair. It didn’t look any better from this angle, I decided.

  Karen Chance

  Eye, Hair, Leaving

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.13, Penguin

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• Shokaku is a crane of some kind.' 'For lifting things?' Will asked. 'For flying. A large bird type of crane,' she corrected him. 'In fact, as near I can Work it out, Shokaku means “a flying crane". 'Seems like a logical thing for a crane to do,' Halt mused. 'I suppose you wouldn't expect it to mean “a hiking crane" or “a waddling crane".'

  John Flanagan

  Mean, Hiking, Bird

  "The Emperor of Nihon-Ja".

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• This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, New York, Humor

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• The higher the trail the steeper it grows Ten thousand tiers of dangerous cliffs The stone bridge is slippery with green moss Cloud after cloud keeps flying by Waterfalls hang like ribbons of silk The moon shines down on the bright pool I climb the highest peak once more To wait where the lone crane flies

  Hanshan

  Moon, Clouds, Bridges

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• We have a legal system, and this is not something that happens all the time. We have capital punishment. America has capital punishment. Iran has capital punishment. Iran hangs people and leaves their bodies hanging on cranes. Iran put to death more than a thousand people last year. I don't see EU reporting on it.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Iran, Years, Punishment

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Psychics, Crow

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.307, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• I went for a more classical approach to filmmaking with lots of dolly, track and cranes, and slightly slower, more choreographed fight moves, so you get more fight moves in one take.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Moving, Fighting, Track

  Source: collider.com

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• I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.

  Dario Argento

  Friday, Cameras, Able

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• A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.

  Albert Renger-Patzsch

  Photography, Mean, Technology

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• I conquered a fear of heights and water by bungee jumping from a crane over a lake. And if thats not crazy enough, I also wrestled a greased pig in a mud pit.

  Shandi Finnessey

  Crazy, Lakes, Jumping

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• Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

  Chanakya

  Son, Swans, Parent

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• The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Blind Spots, Car

  John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Fighting, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.59, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is Hillary's [Clinton] star power that radiates to every corner of the ballroom. New York bigwigs, such as financial-media impresario Michael Bloomberg, attorney and labor mediator Theodore Kheel, and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, crane to see her.

  Gail Sheehy

  Stars, New York, Media

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• You really feel like you're on the cutting edge and you know you are because all the camera equipment you take for granted doesn't exist for 3-D. So all the cranes with all the stabilized heads, they don't work on 3-D because they're all built for lightweight camera packages. As soon as you kind of put two cameras together and all the other crap that they need and the cabling to go back to the computers, we've literally, the cranes on these movies, they break after a couple of days.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Couple, Cutting, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years.

  Adam Savage

  Stars, War, Years

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• I started moving away from poets like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane and started reading poets like, again, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov, Philip Larkin, and the British poets who were imported through that important anthology put together by Alvarez - and those would include Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes. And I think these poets gave me assurance that there were other ways to write besides the rather involuted style of high modernism whose high priests were Pound, Eliot and Stevens, and Crane perhaps.

  Billy Collins

  Moving, Reading, Writing

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• 90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks. Everybody understands that if we were to have a solution then those blocks would stay in Israel. And that's where you saw these cranes; that's where Israelis live. In the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem, everybody understands, they will stay.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Block, Israel, Citizens

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Working in 3D I didn't experience much of a difference, except that the cameras are very big so they can't be moved around with as much ease. It was more like, when you've seen photos of cameras from the 1930s being moved around with these huge cranes. So there was something quite sort of old-fashioned about it almost.

  James Frain

  Differences, Cameras, Ease

  "James Frain Talks ‘TRON: Legacy’ & ‘The Cape’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. December 23, 2010.

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• I like to move as much as possible and look at reflections, weird angles, subjects from airplanes and cranes. I feel sorry for the Jabba the Hut types who can't do this. Once an obese student told me that he wanted to be a war photographer. I said, "Really?" and then I shot him.

  Peter Menzel

  Sorry, War, Moving

  "Interview with Peter Menzel and Faith DAluisio". Interview with Philip Greenspun, www.photo.net. April, 2007.

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• ... the constant flow of images undercuts the sense that there's actually something wrong with the world. How can there really be a shortage of whooping cranes when you've seen a thousand images of them - seen ten times more images than there are actually whooping cranes left in the wild?

  Bill McKibben

  World, Flow, Thousand

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