A Quote by Carrie Mae Weems

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

Carrie Mae Weems

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Carrie Mae Weems
American - Photographer
Born: April 20, 1953

My relationship with religion is very strong because it was my hope, and it gave me two things very important in my life. It gave me the belief and it gave me a point to reach: Don't do something bad to the people next to you.

Riccardo Tisci

When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to give me extra reading and writing. And he always knew that I was interested in stuff but he never told me that he was in the Second World War himself. One day he gave me his helmet that he had worn through the North Africa Campaign. It was just before he died. So I've got his helmet. That was pretty special to me.

Jeremy Irvine

I asked for strength, and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom, and God gave me problems to learn to solve. I asked for prosperity, and God gave me a brain and brawn to work. I asked for courage, and God gave me dangers to overcome. I asked for love, and God gave me people to help. I asked for favors, and God gave me opportunities. I received nothing I wanted. I received everything I needed.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage - very important things to me - and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me.

Albert Schweitzer

Normal people, fear the day their parents die. Screwed up people, fear the day their parents kill. My mum killed a guy, at my wedding. So I can pretty much check that off. But, she's my mum. And no matter what she did I just can't walk away from her. She gave me birth. She gave me love. She gave me the ability to make a cigarette fire look like it was started by the hot water heater.

Christopher Titus

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Mario Testino

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Suzi Quatro

The good lord gave me a very unusual voice, and gave me the opportunity to learn how to use it.

Thurl Ravenscroft

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Matthew Lewis

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Liv Ullmann

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Emmanuel Adebayor

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Paul Orndorff

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Marcie Cohen Ferris

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Mahershala Ali

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