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“Democracy cannot survive where there is such uniformity that everyone wears exactly the same intellectual uniform or point of view. Democracy implies diversity of outlook, a variety of points of view on politics, economics, and world affairs. Hence the educational ideal is not uniformity but unity, for unity allows diversity of points of view regarding the good means to a good end.”

World Mean Ends Views Democracy Diversity Intellectual Ideals Economics Unity Affair Educational Point Of View Variety Uniforms Outlook Uniformity World Affairs

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers of news organizations also have a deep allegiance to the public, that allegiance is necessarily alloyed with their concern for their own point of view or for the bottom line.”

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Author:Bill Kovach

“Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all right.”

Real Views Point Of View Cynicism

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.”

Culture Courses Views Vision Particular Photographer Photograph Point Of View Dependent Analysts

Book:The small conference: An innovation in communication

Source: The small conference: An innovation in communication

“The idea behind the tuxedo is the woman's point of view that men are all the same; so we might as well dress them that way. That's why a wedding is like the joining together of a beautiful, glowing bride and some guy. The tuxedo is a wedding safety device, created by women because they know that men are undependable. So in case the groom chickens out, everybody just takes one step over, and she marries the next guy.”

Knows Men Way Wells Ideas Might Together Beautiful Guy Next Views Behinds Steps Cases Dresses Safety Point Of View Devices Chickens Brides Joining Glowing Tuxedos Joining Together

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I'm learning in my own sort of quiet, out-of-the-spotlight kind of way. I certainly have my general point of view about the government, and the future of our children. I'm certainly learning all the time, I'm happy to be an onlooker for now.”

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Author:Cathy Freeman

“I don't think you can develop or learn a way of seeing or a point of view. A way of seeing is who you are, how you think and how you create images. It is something that is inside of you. It's how you look at the world.”

Thinking World Way Looks Views Seeing Who You Are Point Of View

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“As the Chinese will tell you, history depends on your point of view.”

Views Depends Point Of View Chinese

Author:Tim Allen

“Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of view.”

Political Views Media Mass Competition Photographer Point Of View Mass Media Terrain Misrepresentation

Author:Lucy R. Lippard

“At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.”

Views Concerned Point Of View Cynical

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.”

Ifs Would Be Views Prepared Point Of View Excellent

Author:Shirley Williams

“Photography today is accomplishing a lofty mission in which every German should collaborate by buying a camera. The German people is ahead of every other in the technical domain and, thanks to its exceptional qualities, the small camera has conquered the whole world... Much is at stake here from the point of view of popular consumer goods and, furthermore, photography has a particularly important political role to play. (Addressing the Berlin Photography Fair, 1933)”

“...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.”

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Author:Annie Leibovitz

“From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.”

Views Photography Point Of View

Author:Chuck Close

“I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.”

Believe Individual My Own Views Point Of View Just Believe

Author:Imogen Cunningham

“Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they wanted was to play hot jazz, and the instrument was just a means. I'd imagine that a lot of them criticized me-said my technique was too good. Something like that. But I've always wanted to know what made music. How you do it, and why it sounds good. I always practiced, worked like hell.”

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Author:Benny Goodman

“Making a film from the point of view of a young boy's eyes opened the door to another universe with lots of freedom and to explore a new dimension. This was achieved as I started doing things that were close to what exists in a child's universe.”

Children Eye Film Young Universe Views Boys Doors Point Of View Dimensions

Author:Alex Abreu

“The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of those people for many, many years, is an amazing pleasure and a hit that some people say, and I've never done heroin, but some people say that it rivals the heroin hit, so there is that pleasure. The-it kills you the same way that heroin kills you.”

People Way Years Done Pleasure Views Point Of View Charm Smoking Cigarette Rivals Heroin

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“Assuming that all bad girls smoke. I don't think so. I've been around a lot of bad girls who don't smoke, you know, so I think it's easy to put a cigarette into, you know, into anyone's hands and say, well that makes them a bad boy or a bad girl. There are many more creative ways from a writerly point of view to do that.”

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Author:Joe Eszterhas

“If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just you perceiving and experiencing it from your own point of view.”

Ifs Writing Stills Book Whole Hands Beautiful Views Flower Point Of View Beautiful Flower

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point of view, a point of view which stresses the importance of private markets, of individual freedom, and the distorting effect of governmental policy.”

“As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .”

People Writing States Language Views Point Of View Platforms Oath

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out.”

Way Writing Trying Matter Views Subjects Serious Point Of View Comic

Author:Julie Davis

“When a woman wins an Oscar for telling a story from a woman's point of view, that's going to be the win. That's the moment.”

Moments Stories Winning Views Point Of View Oscars

Author:Julie Davis

“Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience.”

Different Matter Views Race Point Of View Different Experiences

Author:Bryan Fuller

“Visit to Africa reshaped my point-of-view of colonialism. It reshaped my point-of-view of my own sense of source, and my own place of birth. It made it more organic inside of me, because it placed me in a position where my job was to understand and to become more African.”

Made Jobs My Own Views Position Source Birth Point Of View Made It Colonialism

Author:Forest Whitaker

“I believe in the directorial point of view and directorial choices.”

Believe Choices I Believe Views I Believe In Point Of View

Author:Laszlo Nemes

“Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.”

Book Self America Views Effects Majors Point Of View Theme Hotel Digital Spheres Interaction Persona North America

Author:Rick Moody

“I became a terrible drunk or alcoholic - or a good one depending on your point of view.”

Views Terrible Point Of View Drunk Alcoholics

Author:Craig Ferguson

“For a short period of time, I was like, I have these jokes and if people get them, they get them. And then eventually, I was like, Oh no. It's absolutely my job to convey to people why what I think is funny, is funny. The whole point of standup is to get the audience to understand your weird point of view.”

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Author:Eugene Mirman

“Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.”

Form Views Pieces Information Amount Patterns Insight Point Of View Recognition Implicit

Author:Maria Popova

“I hope that nothing ever wussifies me to deny my own personal beliefs. Brainwashed wussies have been taught that standing up for yourself and defending your personal point of view makes you a close-minded hate monger. One must also be respectful of dissenting belief while supporting their own.”

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Author:Brad Stine

“From an egotistical point of view, I'm always interested in roles that push me as a person. I'm interested in humans as animals and as products of society.”

Humans Persons Animal Views Roles Products Point Of View Egotistical

Author:Tom Cullen

“I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.”

People Art Artist Views Photography Point Of View Minorities

Author:Lewis Baltz

“I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place.... My body must be anchored to the ground and seek the best point of view, without any visual taboos. But then, at the heart of the event, my effort is to disappear, I introduce a distance that borders on indifference.”

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Author:Luc Delahaye

“What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.”

Art Important Moments Views Awareness Return Photography Notion Point Of View Instant Surprising Brief Moments

Author:Raoul Hausmann

“I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.”

Reason My Own Views Numbers Photographer Point Of View

Author:Saul Leiter

“When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view.”

People World Believe Looks My Own Views Photograph Edges Point Of View Documents Biased

Author:Zoe Leonard

“You should be constantly asking yourself: What do I want to say next? What do I believe in? Who am I? What is my image? To be a successful photographer, you have to have a unique point of view otherwise you'll get lost in the mix.”

Want Should Believe Next Lost I Believe Views Successful Unique Asking Photographer I Believe In Point Of View

Author:Mario Sorrenti

“I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else.”

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Author:Glenn Beck

“We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right.”

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Author:Stephen Covey

“I've found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.”

Found Levels Views Style Elements Point Of View Superficial Eagles Claws

Author:Lou Reed

“If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.”

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Author:Lou Reed

“It presents a really compelling case against the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. From my point of view, it is a theory that has completely corrupted public policy making in most of the developed world. It confronts all the dubious claims that the warmists have put out there.”

World Whole Views Cases Policy Theory Claims Point Of View Global Warming Compelling Public Policy Dubious Policy Making

Author:Nick Minchin

“Although I am not a climatologist, it has been interesting to observe climatology from the point of view of an arctic scientist. In order for the field of climatology and IPCC to be healthy, I want to provide a few criticisms, which I hope are constructive."”

Want Has Beens Order Interesting Views Fields Healthy Criticism Scientist Point Of View Constructive Arctic

Author:Syun-Ichi Akasofu

“Referring to professor Muller's Berkely Earth Surface Temperature Project, "The Best project's treatment of science and of the public has been shoddy. That so many so-called reporters in the mainstream media should have been so uncritical and accepting of what was clearly misrepresentation is shocking. Once again they have been found to be supporters and advocates for a particular point of view when they should have been critical commentators and journalists. Climate science is important. It deserves better.”

“When we are clear enough about our own point of view, we can find help in the methods of Eastern Christianity or in the ways of the Far East, perhaps by consulting the I Ching or through mandala contemplation; we may even find help in the ways of shamanism or Islam. If we are clear about where we stand and the direction we must take, such methods may be useful in order to follow our own way to the end.”

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Book:The Other Side of Silence: Meditation for the Twenty-First Century

Source: The Other Side of Silence: Meditation for the Twenty-First Century

“With respect to the situation in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, in both countries the Soviet Union had been working hard to create an infrastructure of those who shared their point of view and were prepared to take over the countries.”

Country Hard Views Situation Unions Prepared Point Of View Soviet Soviet Union Infrastructure Horns Ethiopia Horn Of Africa

Author:Paul Nitze

“I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and write it from their point of view. It's really fun. It's not erotic.”

Writing Character Strong Fun Sex Views Point Of View Erotic Comprehension

Author:Jane Smiley

“I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.”

Want Firsts I Can Helping Jobs Film Political Views Moral Teacher Position Point Of View

Author:Sydney Pollack

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