Sebastiao Salgado Quotes
My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.
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I really didn't feel challenged anymore. I wanted to learn something and be excited again... While it can be a family - that environment is actually a family - in the sense that also you sometimes hate each other, you can't stand being around each other and grudges are held... I was getting cranky on 'Criminal Minds.'
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.
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“Thinking matters through before we act is always difficult and often consumes a lot of our time. But it is simply not possible to be a person of integrity without doing it.”
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The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
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An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.
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One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.
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My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.
