Mary Ellen Mark Quotes

If I'm in an unusual or extreme social environment, I always want to know what it's like to grow up there and experience it as normal, everyday life. And I want to know what sort of adults these children are going to turn into.

Mary Ellen Mark

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I love hearing old Bob Marley recordings that he did before he made the versions everybody knows.

Jim James

LoveOldHearingMadeKnowsHe

When you spend a year or two researching a subject, and you're still fascinated by it, that's a good indicator that what you're doing will appeal to others, as well.

Jim Murphy

GoodDoingYearYouWillOthers

Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.

John Cameron Mitchell

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These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

Andrew Motion

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We only have two hours to change people's lives.

John Cassavetes

ChangePeopleTwoOnlyHoursLives

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

Stephen Wolfram

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Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

Mason Cooley

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When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.

Lisa Whelchel

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I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

Clark Durant

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Our players are role models; there's no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they're in the spotlight. So if they do something that's wrong, that's in the spotlight, too.

Bob McNair

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I'm a supporter of female entrepreneurs. I don't feel like a victim, and I try to not think of myself as one.

Brit Morin

MyselfThinkFeelTryVictimLike

Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman.

Anne Fortier

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