I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

Photography helps people to see.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation the image is.

What the human eye observes causally and incuriously the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.

What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.

You can have everything in life you want if you will just help other people get what they want.

I'm a Southerner.

Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

To change a team you must change their comfort zone.

Playing the trumpet is such a intangible experience. The player is compelled to start from the beginning and build anew each day... It isnt like building a house, where we resume where we left the previous accomplishments. Each new day we must rebuild the foundation of our musical structure.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

When you're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar that you spend, that can't continue much longer. I think everybody really does understand that, and it's going to require all of us - those who are the most fortunate among us - but it's really going to require every American to contribute to a solution.

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.

Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.

I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.

I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

In a free enterprise the community is not just another stakeholder but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Android's user-space is so different from stock Linux, you can easily say that Android is not in any way a Linux system, except for the kernel.

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.