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"If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No.""

"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best."

"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us."

"It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there."

"Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend."

"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."

"Never doubt that you can change history. You already have."

"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."

"Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface."

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense."

"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."

"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you."

"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools."

"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out"

"You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."

"Love is not singular except in syllable."

"Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."

"You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same."

"The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them."

"The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills."

"Any communication or marketing professional needs cross-cultural research and communication skills to be able to succeed in the future."

"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."

"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species."

"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind."

"Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'"

"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

"Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals."

"For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one."