“I like drawing most everything I see, but sometimes the light will hit something in a certain way that I just cannot capture the thing the way I would like with a drawing, so I think taking a picture might be the way to document what I am seeing better.” ThinkingWaySometimesLightMightCertainSeeingDrawingCaptureDocuments Author:Jason Polan
“I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the horrors of war. It inspired me to document prostitution; inspired me to document homelessness in America. We are the richest country in the world, yet we have people suffering, so it helped me to look at things in that manner.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksWarCountryShowsEyeAmericaDesireSufferingSituationHorrorPhotographyConcernedInspiredDocumentsHomelessnessProstitutionHorror Of War Author:Jamel Shabazz
“I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show the human side of it.” HumansWarShowsWantedFightingSidesDocuments Author:Jamel Shabazz
“The images of war inspired me to create, to go to different situations and communities, to document the human side of people, to show a side that we don't see.” PeopleHumansDifferentWarShowsSidesCommunitySituationInspiredDocuments Author:Jamel Shabazz
“There is just something about the common being. My education pretty much came from the streets, just connecting with people, different cultures. I gained the wealth just engaging at that level. I'm still like that. I continue to document everyday people versus the stars.” PeopleStillsDifferentCultureStarsWealthLevelsCommonStreetsEverydayDocumentsEngagingVersusConnectingDifferent Cultures Author:Jamel Shabazz
“No matter what, I'm never going to get an anthology from an actual publisher, though I could always score another music anthology. But if this is going to be a document of a multiplicity of my writings, it'll do. It feels like a birthday party or something.” IfsFeelsWritingMatterPartyNo Matter WhatScoreDocumentsPublishersMultiplicityAnthologyBirthday Party Author:Richard Meltzer
“As for not getting things right: I constantly rerun social situations/conversations I experience/have throughout my head, and I'm always writing them down in notebooks or in word documents/the Internet. I feel like these habits and a generally good memory of people/the interactions I have with them (due to studying people having always been my main interest in life) have lead me to being very accurate in things I write in stories/essays.” PeopleFeelsWritingStoriesSocialInterestMemoriesSituationStudyInternetHabitConversationDuesInteractionAccurateDocumentsEssaysNotebookLeading MeGood MemoriesRerunsInterest In Life Author:Marie Calloway
“Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.” KnowsStillsObjectivesDespiteManipulationDocuments Author:Molly Crabapple
“In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American troops. But, as I describe in the book, going out on patrol and coming into a village, the soldiers found a stash of documents and decided this was Taliban propaganda.” WellsBookFoundDecidedTragedySoldierIraqPropagandaVillageOccupationAfghanistanFewerTroopsGoing OutDocumentsTalibanAmerican Troops Author:Yaroslav Trofimov
“The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.” DiscussionDocumentsScreenplays Author:Robert Schwentke
“Well, almost everything is open - the political documents, the (unintelligible) of cabinet meetings. What has been opened now and what had been closed are things that many governments still close, and that is police files and trial records, trial records of the special courts set up by Vichy. And especially interesting are the trial records of the Purge Trials after the war.” WellsHas BeensStillsWarGovernmentPoliticalInterestingRecordsSpecialPoliceCourtMeetingsTrialsDocumentsFilesCabinets Author:Robert O. Paxton
“Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating to me as historical documents. Cabet [Icaria's founder and author of the utopian novel, Travels in Icaria], is writing in the 1830s, and his idea of the perfect society reveals a lot about his time. But his book is uniquely bad.” WritingBookIdeasFunPerfectFictionNovelHistoricalBoringFascinatingFoundersDocumentsUtopianPerfect Society Author:Christine Jennings
“We need to put people on the bench that understand the Constitution is not a living and breathing document. It is to be interpreted as originally meant.” PeopleNeedsConstitutionBreathingDocumentsBenches Author:Marco Rubio
“I still do find the prayers of the Kaddish quite moving, and I just substitute in my mind nature, although that's what the founders did in a lot of their documents, too. They substituted nature or providence for God. I think that's what I do in my head with Jewish God.” ThinkingMindStillsMovingPrayerSubstitutesProvidenceFoundersDocuments Author:Susan Jacoby
“Sartre is one example of someone who does just this. Every text is, after all, a human document and whatever Kierkegaard thought about God was clearly a matter of human thought that can, in principle, be retrieved and interpreted by other human beings. A phenomenological approach to religion must, it seems to me, adopt the old adage: nothing human is alien to me.” HumansDoeMatterSeemsHuman BeingsPrinciplesExampleApproachAliensDocumentsAdagesHuman Thought Author:George Pattison
“I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. The first book in the field that I ever read was Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall. I suppose subsequently I would have to pick out Keynes, Adam Smith, Marx.” FirstsBookPrinciplesFieldsReaderPicksEconomicsFaithfulAdamDocumentsKeynes Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Now documentary evidence is acceptable. What does that mean? If you have documentary evidence that a person served as a guard in one of the death camps and the documents have been authenticated, that is grounds to charge the person with crimes against humanity. And that's why you see the spate of trials previously, for example, in the '70s and the '80s, even in the low '90s. That was not the case until the change in the law.” IfsMeanPersonsDoeHas BeensLawHumanityCasesCrimeExampleLowsEvidenceTrialsCampsAcceptableDocumentsDocumentaries80sCrimes Against HumanityDeath Camps Author:Marvin Hier
“I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.” ThinkingLooksDoneRecordsJourneyMusicalDocuments Author:Kieran Hebden
“I think the most important thing for me is putting out records that document ideas.” ThinkingImportantIdeasRecordsImportant ThingsDocuments Author:Kieran Hebden
“People have a hard time going to a club and seeing this business tool on stage that's wholly indicative of everything that rock is not. Rock is not about sitting in an office setting up documents, yet they see someone on stage doing that.” PeopleHardSeeingRocksStageOfficeSittingToolsClubsSettingSettingsHard TimesDocuments Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman
“It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face.” GivingHardFacesNamesDocumentsHard Life Author:Demian Bichir
“Before Gutenberg, there was this really very strong oral storytelling culture where being able to relay stories from person to person was sufficient. And then, with the introduction of printing and mass communication, suddenly somebody had a lot of authority invested in the idea of a single canonical expression of a document or a piece of communication.” PersonsIdeasStoriesAbleCultureStrongPiecesExpressionCommunicationAuthorityMassStorytellingSufficientVery StrongDocumentsIntroductionPrintingRelaysMass CommunicationGutenberg Author:Khoi Vinh
“I think now we're seeing the pendulum switch back to this idea where conversations are more important, if not more important than documents.” IfsThinkingImportantIdeasSeeingConversationDocumentsPendulums Author:Khoi Vinh
“Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.” LooksLongIdeasHumanitySituationKnownStrangeLong TimeRootsDeeperDocumentsFractals Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“If you do get married, get a prenup. It's not about money at all. It's about having a document that states how you'll dissolve your marriage while you still have a shred of respect for each other.” IfsStillsStatesMarriedDocuments Author:Alec Baldwin
“Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It's also a "forever document" that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people?” PeopleThinkingWorldWayNeedsWritingPersonsBookSelfHelpingForeverGenerationsSelf HelpSeriousRight NowMessagesFavorsOur FamilySomedayWhy NotCaptureGood LifeDocumentsFuture GenerationGood PersonSelf Help BooksHelp BookPositive Messages Author:Brendon Burchard
“The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much.” PlansPlanningSpellsDocumentsStraightforwardBusiness PlanBest Business Author:Paula Nelson
“But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential advance-team member - yet that information was never thoroughly investigated or publicly acknowledged.” ShowsGovernmentHouseGivenWhiteRoomsTeamInformationMembersDetailsPresidentialInterviewsHotelWhite HouseGuestsDocumentsSeniorNotableSuggestingHotel RoomsTeam Member Author:Carol D. Leonnig
“Your medical documents will say Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome that is AIDS. What that means you have got this challenge of immune deficiency. Alright what causes immune deficiency? HIV. Alright. Is that all that causes immune deficiency? The medical textbooks will say there are other things that cause immune deficiency. There is also genetic immune deficiency that is a different phenomenon.” MeanDifferentCausesChallengesAidsMedicalPhenomenonDocumentsHivImmuneTextbooksDeficiencySyndromes Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.” StillsUsePhotographyDocuments Author:Robert Barry
“I guess the main thing that came out of the Panama Papers was that Ukrainian President Poroshenko had promised to divest of his chocolate company and instead, he simply moved it into an offshore account. And on the very day that he was increasing the attacks on the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine, the export sector, he was signing documents to conceal his own money offshore. So the exposé of the Panama money laundering has hit some of the dictators that America is protecting and promoting.” AmericaPresidentCompanyPaperAccountsMovedRegionsChocolateDictatorDocumentsPapersEasternPromotingUkraineSigningUkrainianPanamaOffshoreMoney Laundering Author:Michael Hudson
“When I look at that record in light of the 1985 job application to the [Ronald] Reagan Justice Department, it's even more troubling.That document lays out an ideological agenda that highlights Judge Samuel Alito in belonging to an alumni group at Princeton that opposed the admission of women and proposed to curb the admission of racial minorities.” LooksLightJobsJusticeRecordsGroupsJudgingLaysDepartmentMinoritiesAgendasBelongingApplicationDocumentsIdeologicalHighlightsAdmissionCurbPrincetonAlumni Author:Edward Kennedy
“After all, our Constitution was intended as a popular document. It was drafted and ratified by the people. It established democratic institutions. It entrusts the people with the power to make the tough decisions. And, in most cases, it prefers the will of the people to the unchecked rule of judges.” PeopleDecisionCasesJudgingToughConstitutionInstitutionsDemocraticDocumentsTough Decisions Author:Mike DeWine
“In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract."” PresidentConstitutionLawyerContractsDocumentsFranklinLayman Author:Mike DeWine
“That very document [Constitution] does little to serve people when Supreme Court decisions are written so that even high-priced lawyers can't figure them out.” PeopleLittlesDoeDecisionWrittenFiguresConstitutionCourtLawyerSupremeDocumentsSupreme CourtCourt Decision Author:Mike DeWine
“I find that as a female boss in the music industry, it's difficult to actually be treated as if you actually are the boss and to have people act on your instructions and take you seriously. Like you call up people who are working for you and say, "I'd like to see such-and-such document," and they tell you that you don't need it. Then you have to spend time convincing them that it doesn't matter whether they think you need it or not, they're supposed to hand it to you.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsMatterHandsDifficultLike YouIndustryFemaleTreatedBossInstructionDocumentsEnd TimesConvincingSpend TimeMusic Industry Author:Sinead O'Connor
“I am convinced Pope Francis' Exhortation can help. The effort must be made to read it because an exhortation can only help if you know it. It is valuable to know the work. It is so rich and I can only encourage our pastors and our communities to work on it, study it, read it, and taste the joy of this beautiful document.” IfsKnowsMadeI CanHelpingBeautifulJoyCommunityEffortStudyRichTasteValuableConvincedWorking ItDocumentsPopeOur PastPastorOur Community Author:Christoph Schonborn
“I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of the 21st century.” NeedsBelieveI BelieveJusticeCenturyConstitutionDocuments21st Century18th Century Author:Frank Lautenberg
“I think the most exciting thing is access to information. People's ability to document things and expose things that may have not otherwise been documented and exposed. All the information you want is available instantly, which is overwhelming, but I think can have a positive change on the political process and accountability for leaders and corporations.” PeopleThinkingWantMayPoliticalProcessAbilityLeaderInformationExcitingAvailableAccessCorporationsAccountabilityOverwhelmingExposedDocumentsPositive ChangeExciting ThingsAccess To Information Author:Moby
“All of William S. Burroughs friends pushed it forward and introduced me to one another. I was able to enter into that beat family for a while and document it.” AbleBeatsDocumentsBurroughs Author:Yony Leyser
“I don't care where [Ted] Cruz comes from. I don't care where the President comes from. Day one, I opened an investigation on a fraudulent government Hawaii document, period, on a birth certificate, so if you can say Cruz has fake documents, okay.” IfsGovernmentCarePresidentBirthPeriodsOkayDon't CareI Don't CareFakeInvestigationDocumentsHawaiiCruzCertificatesBirth Certificate Author:Joe Arpaio
“The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it also depends on interpretation. It's very similar to how you grow a master plan: it's an objective document, but at the same time it is a lyrical document which allows through interpretation to become a harmonious work of art.” WayWritingArtGrowsPlansMastersDependsTruth IsObjectivesCodeInterpretationWorks Of ArtDocumentsPreciseHarmoniousLyrical Author:Daniel Libeskind
“Authority can mean different things to different people. For example, some document or other may be authoritative for particular group even though it's not reliable. It's just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group.” PeopleMayMeanDifferentGroupsExampleParticularAuthorityAcceptedDifferent ThingsTruthfulDocumentsIgnoredDifferent Peoples Author:D. A. Carson
“Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can see and read the personalities of the human authors with their individual vocabularies and literary genres, and yet this is nevertheless the word of God. How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.” HumansHas BeensIndividualHuman BeingsResultsExamplePersonalityIslamGenreContributionWord Of GodContrastNeverthelessDocumentsVocabularyLiterary Genre Author:D. A. Carson
“The script is a bible and it's this unchangeable document that somebody spent years and years on.” YearsScriptsDocumentsUnchangeable Author:Alison Pill
“My real issue is that the woman [Hillary Clinton] exposed thousands and thousands of classified documents, which, if I exposed one of them when I was in the Justice Department, they would have put me in jail. That's what I know.” IfsKnowsRealJusticeIssuesClintonDepartmentJailExposedDocuments Author:Rudy Giuliani
“Your mission is to document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document your findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to.” IfsWorldRecordsFocusOne ThingFindingsNotesPatternsMissionsCopiesDocumentsOne Thing At A TimeFocus On One Thing Author:Keri Smith
“The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history, in that it placed the individual person first in the political scheme of things and made the legitimacy of governments and ruling classes contingent on their success at preserving individual rights.” FirstsHumansPersonsHas BeensMadeGovernmentPoliticalIndividualJusticeClassRightsIndependenceRevolutionarySchemesDocumentsDeclarationRulingHuman HistoryDeclaration Of IndependenceLegitimacyIndividual Rights Author:Alan Bock
“Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents and written a lot about them. In fact, anybody who's worked through the declassified record can see very clearly that the reason for classification is very rarely to protect the state or the society from enemies. Most of the time it is to protect the state from its citizens, so they don't know what the government is doing.” KnowsLongStatesReasonFactsGovernmentEnemyTechnologyStudyRecordsWrittenRevolutionCitizensProtectInternalsDocumentsClassification Author:Noam Chomsky
“We are still learning how exactly the Earth reacts to increased CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We know it leads to warming seas which are melting the North and the South Poles, rising and starting to swallow entire coastal areas in the US and elsewhere, as the New York Times article documents.” KnowsStillsEarthSeaNew YorkAreasSouthStartingRisingArticlesElsewhereDocumentsMeltingNew York TimesGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesCo2Coastal Author:Graciela Chichilnisky