Elliott Erwitt Quotes
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.Elliott Erwitt
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economists - a 'sociologist.'
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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Since our inception, Youku Tudou as the leader in the multi-screen video space has helped transform how video and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
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That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.
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A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'
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I like to have a sense of accomplishment through work. I'm busy golfing and attending activities, but I think of holding a meeting as playing golf. I think my approach is very good. I don't feel I lose a lot of fun things in life even though I am busy all day.
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The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life of training.
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Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
Elliott Erwitt
