Elliott Erwitt Quotes

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• As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Culture
  • Me
  • English

• Avoid patent leather, pink, and crystals.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Pink
  • Leather
  • Patent

• I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Good
  • Career

• Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • You
  • Wall

• A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Government
  • Independence

• In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Evil

• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Person
  • Rule
  • Conscience

• It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Understanding
  • Imagination
  • Literature

• Your body hears everything your mind says.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Mind
  • Health
  • Body

• I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Moment

• I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Work
  • Know
  • Relationship

• I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Kids

• While I am in this world, I am resolved that no vexation shall put me out of temper if I can possibly command myself. Even old age, which is making strides towards me, shall not prevail to make me peevish.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • World
  • Age
  • Myself

• I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Important
  • Job

• I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Why
  • Think
  • Shy

• A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • People
  • Black
  • Me

• America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Trying
  • American
  • America

• Over the course of a year - from January 2014 to March 2015 - millions of Americans, hundreds of businesses, and dozens of policymakers weighed in at the Federal Communications Commission in favor of net neutrality.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • March

• A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that I've always wanted to hear. Or maybe in a style I already loved, but I was looking for something in it that I wasn't hearing yet.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Style

• Candidly, when you go back to '07 or '08, it was hard to sell cloud. We started out by focusing on large enterprises on day one. Everybody thought cloud was for SMBs (small and mid-size businesses), but we made the leap that it was going to be for large enterprises, that they were going to replace their core systems.

  

  Aneel Bhusri
  • Small

• I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ragtag band of misfits. I wrote for 'On Harvard Time,' which was a student TV show trying to be 'The Daily Show.' And I wrote a humor column for 'The Crimson' starting my sophomore year.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

  Elliott Erwitt