Mario Testino Quotes
I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.
Quotes to Explore
-
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
-
Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
-
I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
-
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
-
The world is always terrible.
-
The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
-
You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
-
We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
-
In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
-
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
-
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
-
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
-
What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
-
I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
-
China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
-
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
-
Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
-
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
-
Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.
-
The real estate lobby has prominent allies in both parties. After the last major overhaul of the tax code, in 1986 - under a Republican president, Ronald Reagan, a Republican Senate and a Democratic House - it was a Democrat, Bill Clinton, who signed legislation that restored lost real estate tax breaks seven years later.
-
We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world - a monster country, one might say, along with others such as China, India, the recent Soviet Union, and Brazil. And there is a real question as to whether 'bigness' in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.
-
A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
-
I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.
