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"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."
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"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."
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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."
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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."
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"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."
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"Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe."
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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."
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"We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job."
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"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."
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"My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times."
Nature

"There was hostility surrounding doing my job."
Job

"The plastic on your sandwich really doesn't have to be made to last 50 years."
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"Memphis is a great town, man. There's a great musical community here. I'm trying to fit in."
Community

"The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling."
Time

"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""
Father

"Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change."
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