"If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers."

Robert Mapplethorpe, American Photographer

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"If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers."

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"One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent."

Alan Keyes, American Politician

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"Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party."

Ed Gillespie, American Politician

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"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Once the principals in their party are seated, with those lower on the totem pole left to grumble and move on to find another table, our once-cozy booth transforms into a damp fusion of vacuous wretchedness, with the three women all complaining alternately about their wet hair/clothes and their respective distance from Talon, while the man himself is trying to maneuver his Paul Bunyan frame way too close to me."

Elle Lothlorien, American Novelist

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"I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation."

William Odom, American Soldier

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"The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election."

Ed Gillespie, American Politician

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"Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party."

Ed Gillespie, American Politician

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"Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am."

Jeff Ament, American Musician

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"Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be."

Jason Schwartzman, American Actor

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"Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party."

Kool Moe Dee, American Musician

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"My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be."

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"When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist."

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"One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent."

"Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party."

"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."

"I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation."

"The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election."

"Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party."

"Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am."

"Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be."

"Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party."

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"My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be."

"I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree."

"This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it."

"If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live."

"I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life."

"People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography."

"The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved."

"My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be."

"When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist."

"Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love."