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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I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.
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We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.
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I think that's what it's all about; you work hard and practice to play on the big courts.
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The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact…moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work. We choose who we will be in the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form in our material selves.
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A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.
Elliott Erwitt
