Wayne Dyer
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Peace can be a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job."
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Lenses
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Christopher Doyle
Cinematographer
"You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using."
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often."
Wade Davis
Anthropologist, Author
"The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit."
Andy Garcia
Actor, Director
"They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that."
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"The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world."
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"Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly."
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"Time is the lens through which dreams are captured."
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"In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it."
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"You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for."
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"If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how my best images appear. That excitement and shock of discovery makes my life at these moments a gift."
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"Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!"
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"It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened."
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"We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world."
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"This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self."
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"Men are lenses through which we read our own minds."
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"When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident."
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"If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm."
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"It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves."
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"There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point."
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"Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world."
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"I'm a natural behind the camera... My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here... When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I'm genuinely glad and relieved to be there."
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"Time is the very lens through which ye see - small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope - something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality."
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"I hope that this [hacking] does not continue to be viewed purely through a partisan lens.I think there are Republicans as well as Democrats who are concerned about this."
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"There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town."
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