James Nachtwey Quotes

I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

James Nachtwey

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• Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Pain

• I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Music
  • Attention

• Politics is a good thing!

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Good
  • Politics
  • A Good Thing

• If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Water
  • Same
  • Beer

• The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Myself

• Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Star

• Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Done
  • Leaving
  • Australia

• I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Said
  • Read
  • Meet

• Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Need
  • Nations
  • Divided

• I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Water
  • Individual
  • Issue

• Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • She
  • Woman
  • Admire

• The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Good
  • American
  • Fashion

• On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I'm lucky because I come from a different source point.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• We’re avant-garde. It doesn’t mean we have to be unhygienic.

  

  Frances McDormand

• Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Good
  • Law
  • Red

• He was a poet and hated the approximate.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke

• When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Job

• The technology and tactics of attack have now far surpassed the technology of defense despite the development of highly maneuverable and powerful anti-missiles with nuclear warheads and despite other technical ideas, such as the use of laser beams and so forth.

  

  Andrei Sakharov
  • Technology
  • Powerful

• I am against any reconciliation with Israel.

  

  Hassan Nasrallah
  • Israel
  • Reconciliation

• I like silence.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Silence

• A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Democracy
  • Paradise

• Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Good
  • Me
  • Space

• I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

  

  James Nachtwey