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

• No one can keep a secret better than a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Child
  • Better
  • Secret

• 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

• Then there is Dick Cheney, who essentially said that if Kerry is voted in as president, terrorism will hit America again. How is that? Is Cheney going to make some calls? Apparently he has the hook up.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • America

• I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

  

  Marion Bartoli
  • Earth

• Contrary to Eastern Europe, where the border was more porous and you could exchange information more easily, Cuba is an island. Thus, it is more isolated, and it's easier for the government to have great control over its citizens.

  

  Luis Fortuno
  • Great
  • Control

• I can't talk on the radio at all. When the red light comes on, my hands go up in the air: I think they're trying to get to my face, to shut me up. I don't talk on stage for the same reason.

  

  Alison Mosshart
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Light

• Did he just say--?" "Yes," Claire said, smiling. "Yes, he did." "Whoa. Guess I'd better stay alive, then.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Smile
  • Alive

• 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