Philippe Halsman Quotes

I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

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• Let's talk about Connie Britton, who I love. I don't know of a person who doesn't love her, I don't know a man or woman who doesn't have a crush on her, she's the most fabulous person in the entire world, and she's such an incredible actress, and so sweet, and I love her.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • World
  • Know
  • Person

• The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Creativity
  • Efficiency

• Winning is everything in Hollywood.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Winning
  • Hollywood

• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Up
  • Different
  • Like

• There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Religion

• I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Career
  • Stage
  • Films

• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Way
  • Know
  • Retire

• Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

  

  Maimonides
  • Same
  • Liar
  • Pen

• When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Start

• I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Freedom
  • Creative
  • Someone

• Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Day
  • Positive

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Generation
  • Abuse

• I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Balance

• You can stroke people with words.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Words
  • You

• I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Life
  • Language
  • My Life

• I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

  

  James Boswell
  • Time
  • May

• A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• We couldn't take you to the mansion, so I brought the mansion to you. You're about to meet a few of the guys that will be vying your heart.

  

  Chris Harrison
  • Heart
  • Guys
  • Meet

• Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Family
  • She
  • Bad

• Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that!

  

  Ben Harper
  • People
  • Time
  • Hand

• I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

  

  Philippe Halsman
  • Mother
  • Picture
  • Child