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- Nov 07, 2020
Black and White Quotes
Where clarity ends and nuance begins.
These lines explore the appeal of seeing things plainly, like a character sheet that lays out every skill without ambiguity. Related reading is in Clarity.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
- Encourages
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- Nov 07, 2020
This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.
- Bomber
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it, when we were still playing the pubs and clubs - around '75. Shocking, really - what would you call them apart from 'horrible?' We'd wear these white zip-up bomber jackets with black kind of loon pants and black and white shoes.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
When images are in black and white, they seem timeless. When you see Carrie Otis in an ad from 1989 next to an ad with Klara Wester from 2009, you don't see a 20-year difference between the pictures.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My relationship with 'Star Wars' is that I'm old enough that I saw it when it first came out - 'A New Hope,' that is - and it was like when Dorothy steps out of black and white into Technicolor. I was transported from a gray, miserable 1970s London into a different galaxy, and I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to be a part of it.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only question we should ask is, 'Are they good?' I've met great actors, black and white, and I've met bad actors, black and white.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many insects, flies are most sensitive to green light. This means that they would see their world as 'black and white,' in that they can't see the multiple colors required to reconstruct a color image of the world. They do, however, have specialized cells that enable them to see ultraviolet wavelengths.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do know how life can go one way or another and that it's not all just black and white, and there are many different situations and twists and turns in life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gee, I wish that life were so black and white that you can't think of a single person who, you know, a good person who has done bad things.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first, I didn't like coming down to Los Angeles at all. It's like, everything's black and white compared to where I live out in the middle of nowhere. There's, like, 400 people in my town!
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020