Hugh Mackay Quotes

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

Hugh Mackay

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The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.

Joel Sternfeld

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The only problem with Pride was guys would try to slip through the ropes to escape. But other than that, I love Pride rules.

Anderson Silva

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Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

Robert Harris

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Extending our lives, extending our creativity, opening up the mysteries of the brain. All those things that are really exciting - that's kind of the basis of 'Neon Future,' and that's why I interviewed Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey.

Steve Aoki

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In college, I actually did some work on a documentary project talking to Vietnam vets about the images of war and how it changed. When they grew up, it was like 'Sands of Iwo Jima' and there was this, you know - after Vietnam, there was a whole different way of looking at war.

Ron Livingston

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I'm happy when the fans sing my name.

Mohamed Salah

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I do like to laugh at and talk about relationships.

Loni Love

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The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

Jordan Peterson

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In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.

Clive Sinclair

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The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.

Claire Denis

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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

Alfred Russel Wallace

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You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we'd see of them until we were coming home.

Peter Scott

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