Mario Testino Quotes

Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.

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• Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • More
  • Hollywood
  • Where

• The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Together
  • Tree
  • Creation

• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Know
  • Week
  • Confused

• Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Cricket

• I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Perfect

• One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Truth
  • Emotions
  • Own

• Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Stop
  • Fashion
  • Like

• The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Want
  • End
  • India

• When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Different
  • Style
  • Value

• Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Career

• I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • You
  • Enemy
  • Musicians

• When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Movie

• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • True
  • More
  • Countryside

• It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Judging
  • India
  • Sitting

• The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Country
  • Future
  • Youth

• Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• I'm tired of living in a police state.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Tired
  • Police
  • Living

• I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Religious

• I think we have to acknowledge that people are different and succeed at different things, first of all. Men are better than women at some professions like firefighting, construction work, and physics. But women are better than men at some professions, too, like elementary teaching, prostitution, and giving birth. Who's to say which is more important?

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Kiss

• Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

  

  William Hamilton Maxwell
  • Execution
  • Witness
  • Billing

• Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Fashion