David Bailey Quotes

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

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• Snobbery just inhibits you.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Just
  • Snobbery

• It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• 'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Song
  • Me

• I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Help
  • Position

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Game
  • Moments

• No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Beauty
  • Mountains
  • Corner

• My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • World
  • Me
  • Daughter

• I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Men
  • Bear

• We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Sex
  • Fight
  • Equality

• I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hope
  • Drama
  • Hollywood

• I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Music
  • Art
  • Me

• Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Life
  • Simple

• You cannot win if you cannot run.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Run

• Wisdom sits aloneTopmost in Heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Wisdom
  • Heaven

• Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • Done
  • Art

• I admit, that the commonplace man can never, by copying, produce a masterpiece; he notes every detail but he does not really see - the artist penetrates below the surface into the very heart of nature; for him everything is beautiful because beauty in art consists of character.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Character

• You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Family

• In the years preceding my imprisonment, I worked as a software programmer, designing and developing web interfaces, secure databases, and communication software; later, I was employed as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army. Throughout each of these jobs, we used different kinds of encryption to keep prying eyes out of information we handled.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Different
  • Eyes
  • Army

• Dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.

  

  L. David Mech

• The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Stop
  • Failure
  • Federal Reserve

• I think mine's such a mish-mash now: I get criticised for sounding like a Yank when I come home, and everybody thinks I'm Australian when I'm in America.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • Home
  • America

• However, personally, I see this as not having the right to abuse this trust [among the citizens of Russia and Japan], and any decision we reach should correspond to the national interests of the Russian Federation.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Decision
  • Interest
  • Abuse

• I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

  

  David Bailey