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• What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they miss the condition. I am comfortable with the notion of pattern and ornament as a system of organization, [but] for me it acts as a textile. So it's not about pattern, but the notion of architecture through the lens of textile, rather than architecture through the lens of brick and mortar.

  David Adjaye

  Organization, Bricks And Mortar, Missing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.

  Julian Ovenden

  Giving, Cameras, Doe

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• My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Song, Writing, Past

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.

  Ted Alexandro

  Acceptance, Talking, Comedy

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• There are different levels of fame. There are the polite fans who quietly and respectfully approach you and ask for an autograph - and that's acceptable. But the next level... when you think you're having a moment of privacy and there's someone with a long lens catching you when you're about to eat, or sunbathe, or worse... it's just so intrusive and I think it's part of the sickness of our culture.

  Robert B. Weide

  Thinking, Long, Fans

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm in regular contact with people who are still in the military-friends, family, people I served with, men and women I taught at West Point-and I look at every military issue through that lens. What they say or think weighs heavily on my mind.

  Tom Rooney

  Military, Men, Thinking

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• I think that's true of all cinema, that's why cinema is the great humanistic art form. Whatever the film is, it doesn't matter what the film is about, or even whether it's a narrative or figurative film at all, it's an invitation to step into somebody else's shoes. Even if it's the filmmaker's shoes filming a landscape, you go into somebody else's shoes and you look out of their lens, you look out of their eyes and their imagination. That's what going to the pictures is all about.

  Tilda Swinton

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Class, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Teaching is almost like an act of prayer for me. I feel that I am present at the intersection of people and ideas in a very holy way. There are not many places where successful adults can take a break from work or domestic issues and freely and safely explore their inner lives or global issues through an ethical lens.

  Erica Brown

  Prayer, Teaching, Successful

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The most important lens you have is your legs

  Ernst Haas

  Important, Legs, Photographer

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• The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.

  Wade Davis

  Heart, Eye, World

  Wade Davis, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (2009). “The wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world”, House of Anansi Pr

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• I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles.

  Steven Wright

  Dog, Cat, Eye

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• Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Two, Looks

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• The best zoom lens is your legs.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Zoom, Legs

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• Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character.

  Robert Pattinson

  Character, Pouting, Miserable

  Source: collider.com

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• I take bits and pieces from every director. I'd say Sylvain [White] and Nimrod [Antal]. They were more about teaching me lens sizes and depth of field and how to move the camera and lighting. I do want to direct and I didn't go to film school, so having a director that are very much hands on that way and looking to let me learn, that is a key factor.

  Columbus Short

  Moving, Teaching, School

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• Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

  C. A. Bartol

  Nature, Angel, Animal

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• Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.

  Robert Zemeckis

  Moving, Light, The End Of The Day

  Source: collider.com

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• The #‎ zodiac sign on the #‎ Ascendant normally tells us much concerning the dharma of the individual - that is, the central potentiality which the person should seek consciously to actualize as a vessel or lens through which the Divine may act.

  Dane Rudhyar

  Zodiac, May, Individual

  Dane Rudhyar (1972). “The astrological houses: the spectrum of individual experience”, Doubleday Books

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• I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Eye, Hair, Personality

  FaceBook post by Tracee Ellis Ross from Dec 22, 2012

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• Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, “It's hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with tits.” This joke can only be explained with a picture of Joe Torre. But I'm not sure any exist. He dissolves camera lenses.

  Jim Bouton

  Girl, Cameras, Tonight

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• [Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans. Unfortunately, these beliefs are based on assumptions that don't always hold true in many countries, in many cultures.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The art of choosing". TED conference, www.ted.com. July, 2010.

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• We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Filters, Inward, Strongest

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• It’s this perspective of us as humans to look at our world through the lens of ‘normal’ [that] is one of the forces that stops us developing real solutions.

  Justin Hall

  Real, Our World, Perspective

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• You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Learning, Knowledge

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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