Objectives Quotes - Page 7

• America's objective in the Middle East is to create democracy in the same way that my goal on a first date to feed women.

  Dov Davidoff

  America, Goal, Democracy

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jul 05, 2011

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• Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.

  Bernd Becher

  Special, Cameras, Degrees

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• Of course, the camera is a far more objective and trustworthy witness than a human being. We know that a Brueghel or Goya or James Ensor can have visions or hallucinations, but it is generally admitted that a camera can photograph only what is actually there, standing in the real world before its lens.

  Hannah Hoch

  Real, Vision, Lenses

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• Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.

  William Klein

  Realistic

  William Klein, Walker Art Center (1989). “Cinema outsider: the films of William Klein : a nationally touring retrospective”

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• The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.

  Christian Metz

  Photography, Two, Silence

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• I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand and grasp seems to lead me.

  Ray Metzker

  Existence, Leading Me, Reporters

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• The photograph as an objective representation of reality simply does not exist. The photograph does not explain to you what is going on to the left or to the right or above or below the frame. Oftentimes, it doesn't even explain to you what is going on inside the frame.

  Pedro Meyer

  Reality, Doe, Photograph

  "MotherJones ND93: Truth & fiction" by Ruben Martinez, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1993.

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• Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond the practiced facial performance, reaching for something unplanned. While trying to be as objective as possible, I acknowledge that every gesture is still an act of artifice.

  Martin Schoeller

  Thinking, Trying, Records

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• The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

  Allan Sekula

  Objective Truth, Photograph, Offers

  Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”

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• The photographic image has great possibilities. The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into the realm of the indefinable. The photographer as magician is acutely aware of the multiplicity of associations submerged in the appearance of the objective world.

  Arthur Tress

  World, Association, Photographer

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• It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

  Gene Sharp

  War, People, Gains

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• In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Art, Theatre, Audience

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• Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs of darkness around their minds and hide in them. That's why only Ph.D.s believe any of the 100 most absurd ideas in the world such as Absolute Relativism, or the Objective Truth of Subjectivism, of the Meaningfulness of Meaninglessness and the Meaninglessness of Meaning, which is the best definition of Deconstructionism I know.

  Peter Kreeft

  Clever, Believe, Light

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• I had a recurring fantasy in which I took (Rudy Giuliani) out during a press conference (it was nonlethal, just something that put him out of commission for a year or so), saving America from the horror of a President Giuliani. If that sounds like I had some trouble being 'objective,' I did.

  Michael Hastings

  Years, America, President

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• The report falsely asserts that global warming is causing more extreme weather events, more droughts, more record high temperatures, more wildfires, warmer winters, etc., when each and every one of these false assertions is contradicted by objective, verifiable evidence.

  James Taylor

  Winter, Weather, Events

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• As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to capture that reality, they go to dangerous and tragic places at the expense of their lives. I see them as the conscience of our humanity; they represent for me what is left of our humanity.

  Alfredo Jaar

  Reality, Order, Humanity

  Interview, brooklynrail.org. April 6, 2009.

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• Music is what is going to save me," "On the bad days, when I have to look at the cold, hard facts of life, I see that this is not the music business I came up in and I have to be very, very objective and detached and say, 'what's good about it and what's bad about it?' Mostly, I'm finding it good that it's not the same old music business, because the music business I came up in really didn't advance anything I was doing, and I don't think it was particularly kind to a lot of artists.

  Phoebe Snow

  Bad Day, Artist, Thinking

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• If you look at most photography, especially the pictures that grab you, they are not objective at all. Sometimes gut wrenching and sometimes lovely, but the moment someone decides to release the shutter, it is an editorial statement.

  John Filo

  Photography, Lovely, Looks

  "Photographer John Filo discusses his famous Kent State photograph and the events of May 4, 1970". CNN News Chat, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2000.

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• I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast."

  Ishmael Reed

  Writing, White, Long

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We need to destroy ISIS in the caliphate. That's - that should be our objective. The refugee issue will be solved if we destroy ISIS there, which means we need to have a no-fly zone, safe zones there for refugees and to build a military force.

  Jeb Bush

  Military, Mean, Isis

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• It's hard to be objective about your own work.

  Johnette Napolitano

  Hard

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• There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.

  Ruskin Bond

  Two, Inward, Kind

  Source: www.abhijitbhaduri.com

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• Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education.

  Claire McCaskill

  College, Play, Judging

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When Wal-Mart brings water down to the Katrina victims, it's not doing that to be nice; it's doing it to make larger profits and to increase the value of its shares. If its actions are not accomplishing those objectives, the shareholders can sue the executives, and sue them successfully, because it is illegal for them to act on behalf of any other reason than increasing the value of their shares. There is nothing wrong with that. That is the way that they were created and the way we want them to function to increase prosperity in the market.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Nice, Water, Want

  Interview with David Kupfer, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 26, 2006.

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• I want to explain the new alchemy [in the "From Earth, Air, Fire, and Water to a New Vision of Mind and Time"], which has to do with understanding what I call the subjective and objective qualities of existence.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Fire, Air, Water

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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