Elliott Erwitt Quotes
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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I've dealt with a lot in my life.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
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I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.
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I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
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For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.
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Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.
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When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'
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People souls - perennial loners. They're loners like stray stars.
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I'll always be an amateur photographer.
Elliott Erwitt
