Elliott Erwitt Quotes
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.Elliott Erwitt
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?
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The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.
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Everything we own tells too much about us.
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We are the eyes through which the Univers observes itself and knows itself divine.
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Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
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I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.
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Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
Elliott Erwitt
