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What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us


Peg Bracken

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It gives us a better picture of what we do have.
KATHY MORGAN I had him autograph a picture of us taken then. It was pretty funny.
DILLON DOUGHERTY It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.
ROBERT RICHARDSON When we fall in love with someone there's a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotion...
JIM GEOGHAN How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that pic...
STEPHEN R. COVEY It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND It's like playing Battleship with the prostate. Every hole that we have has a coordinate, and we can...
DR. GARY ONIK I like it when one is not certain what one sees. When we do not know why the photographer has taken ...
SAUL LEITER In the end, it's a little part of the big picture, but it's what connects us to the big picture. It ...
DAN LANGAN When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say?
GEORGE CARLIN Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost inst...
SALLY MANN Hopefully after we talk with the suspect, we will have a clearer picture of what actually happened.
CMDRJAMES TOLBERT "The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsen...
F. D. MAURICE Most of us, when imagining an All-American, wouldn't picture a man who looked like me. Not even ...
ALEX TIZON The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, t...
ANTHONY BROWNE Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
DOUGLAS SIRK When you look at the picture, it's good.
EUCHARIA IGWE Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?
Please try to describe the picture as ...
DEYTH BANGER What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the b...
ISAAC MARION My little 8-year-old brother drew a picture of three cats and he wrote 'Cat Empire' under them. When...
FELIX RIEBL I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me ...
BUSTA RHYMES Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, an...
SIMON PEGG Until 15 May when voting started, the picture was positive. After that day we had good and negative ...
ANA GOMES When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!
DAVID TWOHY Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 "The Bible," w...
F. D. MAURICE She was in a state of shock. We stood there for a good 20 minutes, looking at the picture.
AWILDA CORDERO We tend not to look at the bigger picture of our lives and instead dwell on the small things that ir...
RON BARATONO The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS I'm looking forward to playing them again. Those teams didn't get a good picture of how we play.
JAMIE BROBACK Ladies and gentlemen, we understand the big picture after three weeks of testimony. The big picture ...
ALAN GRAYSON I have a knack for putting order to chaos and for looking at the big picture. It is wonderful when y...
CAROLEE CANNATA And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from...
MICHAEL SCHIAVO People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
IMAN It is too amorphous--the picture is cloudy. It looks like it might develop into a very interesting p...
MICHAEL GAVIN In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attent...
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG Within a 95 percent degree of medical certainty, this picture was taken when he was dead.
WILLIAM ANDERSON We have to look at the big picture, and we have to be wise in how we handle not only him but any pla...
OMAR MINAYA Even god almighty cannot help us when good and bad we have done are after us.
NISHI DE SILVA So we have to internalize a very powerful reality that Allah has given us. We treasure all of our re...
NOUMAN ALI KHAN My job was to do a picture of him coming toward us.
JAMES GURNEY One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
RONALD REAGAN I remember when I was in school, they would ask, What are you going to be when you grow up? and then...
GWEN STEFANI I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is.
CHRIS DAUGHTRY One time a guy handed me a picture. He said, 'Here's a picture of me when I was younger.' Every pict...
MITCH HEDBERG I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
DIANE ARBUS Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
ALAIN DE BOTTON Here I came to the very edge
where nothing at all needs saying,
everything is absorbed t...
PABLO NERUDA I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking t...
JACK HANDEY I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking t...
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking t...
STEVEN WRIGHT We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is ...
SAM HARRIS ... I think you gave me a pretty good picture of what happened that night.
JAVIER GARCIA The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap re...
P.G. WODEHOUSE The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN After looking at the big picture, we've decided it has run its course.
COLETTE JENKINS PARKER Where do we all win? When we all make it through, and the bigger picture is all of us making it thro...
JAMIE MURRAY He told us to picture what it would be like to have another one up there for 2006.
EVAN STOKAR A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever rec...
ERNST HAAS It's easier to digest when you look at it from a bigger picture and you put all of us together rathe...
CAROLYN BOLTIN PICTURE, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three."Behold great Daubert...
AMBROSE BIERCE I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are...
JEAN TOOMER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?'...
GWEN STEFANI A tip for looking 'picture perfect' is probably a smile. I think everyone looks better when ...
AMBER LE BON They always gave us the rosy picture.
CARY WOLOVICK We didn't know we had a predecessor until we came across the picture. It gave us chicken skin.
JEANETTE BAYSA One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't ...
ALPHONSO JACKSON When you privatize a common-property resource and hand it to a few individuals, you have taken priva...
DAVE WOODRUFF What's in this for us is it gives us a new way to monitor some of our fires, ... You don't always wa...
MICHAEL MOORE What's in this for us is it gives us a new way to monitor some of our fires. You don't always want t...
PUNKY MOORE If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We all would have liked to have a little rest after the election, but rest is not in the picture.
KATE MICHELMAN Science at that time was looking at fragmented pieces of a big picture. Scientists were looking at t...
HAROLD BROWNING Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact d...
REGINA BRETT What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN I'm friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship...
SARAH HYLAND A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Apart from the dividend, there are no positive surprises. The fact that we have no details on the fi...
CARLO PONFOORT By the end of this year, we're going to have three Mars missions active all at the same time, ... Th...
MICHAEL MALIN At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist...This concentrated...
KEITH STEWART Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
DEYTH BANGER What is true for one relationship, for one painting, is not true for another... each possesses its o...
ALEX MILLER I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS The kind of picture that has a big value are of celebrities getting married. We don't knowingly purc...
BONNIE FULLER I feel really reluctant to talk too much about it because this is only the first step in what we are...
GLEN SATHER When you get to a game like this, it's who's playing, who's on a roll. The teams are close enough th...
LOUIE GOLDEN We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are lo...
DON DELILLO Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what...
JAMES A. KITCHENS We then get a better picture of the situation and are able to look at what we have written in our pl...
HARRY CONOVER I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking t...
JACK HANDY When I am having my picture taken, I channel Beyonce. In the studio, my inspiration is Adele.
ELLA HENDERSON I chose this one for the volume of the rooms. When I was a kid in Paris we had rooms like this and t...
JOAN JULIET BUCK Financially, this is not a pretty picture for us. Despite our efforts and good intentions, we're str...
FLAVIO GONZALEZ These days any planned thing looked good to me. What heaven to have your work cut out for you, to be...
LAURIE COLWIN The surface of Venice is constantly metamorphosing [and] painting Venice is almost like being a rest...
ARBIT BLATAS [T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little...
LORRAINE HANSBERRY I think we have a hard time thinking we can paint a good picture with just words.
KATIE NORDHAGEN A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.
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And it rained the day I walked out.
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Yes.
Because dreamers...
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That had to have been the fakest attempt at o...
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