Elliott Erwitt Quotes

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• On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Been
  • Which

• I love to push myself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Push

• I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'

  

  Karen Robards
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Intellectual

• I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Feeling
  • Running
  • Far

• The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Career
  • Me
  • Ideas

• There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • You
  • Run
  • Safe

• I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • History
  • Today
  • Success

• The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • War
  • Stupid

• Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Want
  • Effort

• It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Running

• As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Long
  • Care
  • Short

• The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Free
  • You
  • Speech

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • School
  • Heart
  • Deep

• There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • School
  • Me

• The 'Kickin' It' set is so much fun, I find myself in a new adventure every week. I work with an amazing cast and crew.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • True
  • Feeling

• The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Society
  • Tradition

• Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun."

  

  Ian Bogost
  • People
  • Fun

• If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Question
  • Technology
  • Day

• Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

  

  Cynthia Weil
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Done

• Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Great
  • God
  • Believe

• I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

  Elliott Erwitt
  • Serious