Jock Sturges Quotes

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

Jock Sturges

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• People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Done
  • Ideas

• My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Before
  • Emancipation

• A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Home
  • Learning

• I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Care
  • Poetry

• Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • People
  • School
  • Done

• The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • People
  • Road
  • Curiosity

• You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Know
  • Research

• I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Know
  • Laugh

• Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Great
  • Bedrooms

• A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Thoughts

• When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

  

  Bruce Hornsby Bruce Hornsby & The Range
  • People
  • Country
  • Song

• Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Long
  • Hope

• My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mean

• The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

  

  Jock Sturges
  • People