Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded … - Michael Lesy

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I think America is amazing for its landscape and its history. California is beautiful, New York is beautiful, but when you're a gypsy at heart, it probably suits you to be traveling.

Michael Lesy

Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.

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By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time. . . but as goad to memory, it is often the first integer in a sequence of recollections that has the power to deny time for the sake of love.

Banal, Deny, Goad, Memories, Ordinary, Snapshots

My idea of a good job would be to be paid really well to sit on my ass all day to look at pictures.

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Cameras don't take pictures, people take pictures.

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Look, I really do not care about you. What I care about is the worlds that you bear witness to. You are nothing more than a dog with a video camera strapped on its back. As you walk the streets looking for a place to mate or piss or eat, the camera is on and we will see the world because of you. . . You carry the camera and we enjoy the world. (On images as autobiography)

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For years and years and years. . . people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain.

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We don’t have to do this. I can fight Coyote. We have the ability to defeat him. ” – Sundown “Are you out of your effing mind? Hello? Where have you been for the last two days? I want whatever screwed-up glasses you’re looking through. ’Cause from where I’ve been standing, we’ve been getting our asses seriously kicked around the block. Up a few stairs and down again. ” – Sasha

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Andrew Cuomo

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

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Homer

For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,
an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend
they were already in the grip of death.
But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it
home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,
twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared
bid for my wife while I was still alive.
Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,
contempt for what men say of you hereafter.
Your last hour has come. You die in blood.

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Bertrand Russell

So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.

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