Elliott Erwitt Quotes

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• Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Important
  • Why
  • She

• As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • Long
  • Building

• When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Kind
  • Young

• For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Child

• Anyone who attacks our LGBT community, anyone who attacks anyone in our state, will be gone after with the full extent of the law.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Law
  • Community
  • Will

• Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Opportunity

• It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Want
  • Amazing
  • Feel

• The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Thing

• I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Humans

• Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Artist
  • Beauty

• The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• 'Silicon Valley' is a great show. It might be the best comedy on television. And if the Academy feels I have stood out to the point of deserving an award, I won't pawn it.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Best

• ABC had all these schlocky, bubblegum acts, and we had to come up with suitable material for them. In which we were amazingly unsuccessful.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Material
  • Unsuccessful

• It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Education
  • Opinion
  • English

• Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

  

  Bruce Springsteen
  • People
  • Music

• LSD wanted to tell me something. … It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.

  

  Albert Hofmann
  • Eyes
  • Joy

• Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

  

  Bruce Lee

• It is worth pointing out that assuredly not more than one person out of a hundred who stayed in the market after after 1925 emerged from it with a net profit and that the speculative losses taken were appalling.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Taken

• Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

  

  Jeff Goodell

• The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the atmosphere around us. But if our emotions fluctuate wildly and we easily give in to hatred and jealousy, even our friends will avoid us. So even for people with no spiritual beliefs, it is important to have a peaceful mind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Important
  • Mind

• Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Suffering
  • Animal

• One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I'll count that as meeting.

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • Time
  • Meetings

• You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • Comedy

• Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.

  Elliott Erwitt