Sebastiao Salgado Quotes

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

Sebastiao Salgado

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• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.

  

  Halima Aden
  • School
  • Like
  • Speak

• I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Mean
  • First
  • Princess

• I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

  

  Edmund White
  • Thought
  • Special
  • Mission

• I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • God
  • Future

• Success is the sweetest revenge.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Success
  • Revenge
  • Success Is

• When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Success

• A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Opportunity
  • Water
  • Sea

• When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Music
  • Important
  • News

• It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Die
  • Never

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• I'm not a violent person.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Person
  • Violent

• A good sign for me, that I'm a good spot mentally, is when I'm super prolific. And I just wake up every day excited to make or replicate music in some way. That's really nice.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Work
  • Age
  • Me

• The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • English
  • White
  • Independence

• History teaches, but it has no pupils.

  

  Antonio Gramsci
  • History

• Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Real
  • Matter
  • Planets

• One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson

• To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

  

  George Washington
  • Experience
  • Impossible
  • Blunders

• As I say, if we bring up religion we’ll have differences; we’ll have arguments; and we’ll never be able to get together.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Together

• In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Work
  • She

• My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.

  

  Caroline Rhea
  • She
  • Mother
  • Personality

• It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who are collaborating, and your job is really to fit in and share that energy. With music, because I write the songs, it's a broader, more abstract process.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Together
  • Problem
  • Solutions