"Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately."

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"Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately."

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"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."

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"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

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"For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer."

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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

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"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age."

Rob Lowe, American Actor

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."

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"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles."

Glenn Frey, American Musician

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"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection."

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"I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without."

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"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."

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"My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea."

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"I see no reason for recording the obvious."

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"Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be."

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"Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual."

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"There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me."

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