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• And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.

  William Henry Jackson

  Believe, Should Have, Done

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• Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it.... I didn't invent anything, I indicated.

  Annette Messager

  Believe, Artist, Sometimes

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• I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

  Sarah Moon

  Photography, Believe, Black And White

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• I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see too much, to witness things that we cannot hold.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Photography, Believe, Brave

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• I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.

  Tod Papageorge

  Photography, Believe, Writing

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• I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.

  Thomas Ruff

  Photography, Believe, People

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• I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.

  Jeanloup Sieff

  Believe, Serious, Defense

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• I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to make ordinary people react - to laugh, or to see something they hadn't taken in before, or to be touched. But not to wince, I think.

  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

  Believe, Taken, Simple

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• You should be constantly asking yourself: What do I want to say next? What do I believe in? Who am I? What is my image? To be a successful photographer, you have to have a unique point of view otherwise you'll get lost in the mix.

  Mario Sorrenti

  Believe, Successful, Unique

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• I believe a lot in instinct. One should never dull it by wanting to know everything. One shouldn't ask too many questions but do what one does properly, never rush, and never torment oneself.

  Josef Sudek

  Believe, Doe, Dull

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• I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we see around us.

  Arthur Tress

  Believe, Records, Majority

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• I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

  Clement Attlee

  Believe, People, Liberty

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• The next song I wrote in Paris years ago in a dream. So I didn't really write it, the universe wrote it. And that's what I believe about music, I believe it belongs to the universe, it comes from there and it's this beautiful energy that we share that transcends normal flash existence and that we inspire each other through.

  Serj Tankian

  Beautiful, Dream, Song

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• The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

  Matsuo Basho

  Believe, Silence, Desire

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• I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Levels, Common

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.365, Penguin

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• I believe I'm growing skeptical of cynicism.

  Chuck Lorre

  Believe, Growing, Cynicism

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• I believe most Americans are pro-choice and anti-abortion.

  Newt Gingrich

  Believe, Choices, Abortion

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  If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, If There Is A God, God And Life

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• I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, what it does it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day - night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Military, Believe

  The Republicans' first Presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.

  Booker T. Washington

  Believe, Race, Done

  Booker T. Washington (2012). “Up from Slavery”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . . then I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home . . . If we are not rooted deeply in place, making that commitment to dig in and stay put . . . then I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. Then we enter a place of true desolation.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Home, Commitment

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• I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, And Love, Needs

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• The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

  Jamie Bamber

  Believe, Natural Talent, Practice

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• A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.

  Tommy Bolin

  Believe, Band, Stories

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• I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Believe, Technology, Suffering

  Presentation at World Federation of Right to Die Societies, September 24, 1984.

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