Mary Ellen Mark Quotes

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

Mary Ellen Mark

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• Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • People
  • Said
  • Same

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Internet

• The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • City
  • Day

• It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Revolution

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Body
  • Healthy
  • Dancing

• I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Great
  • Live
  • Children

• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Existence

• To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • Speak
  • Easy

• In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Up
  • Free
  • Football

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Different
  • Start
  • Gender

• It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Adversity
  • Himself

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Race
  • Lazy
  • Negroes

• A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

  

  Brian Floca
  • Up
  • Great
  • Words

• The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People

• If everybody'd agree to quit using money, I'd be happy to play for free every day for awhile. But I don't play benefits or any kind of fund-raisers. I prefer to play at hospitals, for people who otherwise can't see us. But I can't see playing for causes, whatever the cause may be.

  

  Leon Russell
  • People
  • Money
  • May

• The solution to depression, among other things, is to go within and see if you can tune into more of what might want to come forth out of you. Then take action to follow the path of what attracts you. Reach out, read a book, call a friend, join an organization. Go toward that which attracts you.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Friends
  • Action
  • Depression

• There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • People
  • Friends
  • Respect