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"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
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"There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent."

"I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy."

"There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them."
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"All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job."
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"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."

"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor."

"There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished."

"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."

"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."

"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."

"The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself."

"The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture."

"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."
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