Elliott Erwitt Quotes
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.
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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
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I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
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No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
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I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together.
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Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.
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Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
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You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services will not be able to be provided without e-government services.
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I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.
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I'd like to go back to Buffy, but I've been in a coma, I've jumped off a building, I've been in prison - how many other ways can they bring me back? But those guys are geniuses, so who knows?
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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I do not want other artists to imitate my work – they do even when I tell them not to – but only imitate my example for freedom and independence from all external, decadent and corrupting influences..
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Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.
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Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.
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In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to understanding where where, where they come from, and where they are going.
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Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
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It's very satisfying when you see your song at the top of the charts.
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I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.
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A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.
Elliott Erwitt
