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.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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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.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.
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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.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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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.
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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.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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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.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I'm not a violent person.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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History teaches, but it has no pupils.
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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.
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One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
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As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their own…women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.
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Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
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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.
