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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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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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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Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction.
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I am mean as cats' meat about handbags: mine don't ever look chic. I always prefer bags that aren't made of leather.
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The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.
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It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.
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Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
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A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.
Elliott Erwitt
