Eve Arnold Quotes
I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.
Quotes to Explore
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
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And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?
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An aristocrat in morals as in mind.
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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Unless you find paradise at your own center, there is not the smallest chance That you may enter
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Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult. And yet, examining the first couple's relationship - their negotiations of public and private life, of conflicts and compromises - offers hints about Barack Obama the president, not just Barack Obama the husband.
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Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
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Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see it in the suffering of civilian populations trapped by armed conflict or pervasive crime. We see it in the killing and wounding of civilians - including children, the most vulnerable of all.
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In its flight from death, the craving for permanence clings to the very things sure to be lost in death.
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I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.
