Finals Quotes - Page 20

• I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Essentials, Photographer

  Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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• Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Thinking, Wisdom Experience, Enough

  "Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs".

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• America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

  George W. Bush

  Gun, Clouds, Mushrooms

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Independent, People, Joy

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• I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

  Jimmy Carter

  President, Bed, Three

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. January 18, 2012.

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• God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.

  Johnny Cash

  Hands, Judging, Cash

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• When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Flower, Men

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• In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Asking Why, People, Different

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• I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it.

  Margaret Cho

  Home, Cutting, Editing

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• Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

  John Cleese

  Doe, Rest Of Your Life, Shots

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. February 5, 2008.

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• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  Harlan Coben

  Dream, Kids, Happy Life

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• A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

  Harlan Coben

  Sausage, Want, Might

  Twitter post from Sep 08, 2014

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• I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of 'American Idol,' we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don't believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make 'American Idol 'a better show.

  Simon Cowell

  Believe, Idols, Singing

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• I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.

  Ray Davies

  Believe, Done, Way

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• Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

  James Dyson

  Engineering, Ideas, Together

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• But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Winning, Awards

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• Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

  Charles William Eliot

  Spiritual, Thinking, Expansion

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• It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals!

  Allyson Felix

  School, Thinking, Years

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• The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

  E. M. Forster

  Friendship, Writing, Literature

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.42, RosettaBooks

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• The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

  Edward Gibbon

  Time, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Years, Stuff

  Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2011.

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• It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

  Gary Hamel

  Educational, Ecosystems, What Matters

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• Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Peace, Work, Ubuntu

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• Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Reality, Magic

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.40, MIT Press

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• But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.

  Marc Jacobs

  Educational, Clothes, Museums

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