Herb Ritts Quotes

I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.

Herb Ritts

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• Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Part

• Time stays, we go.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Go
  • Stays

• I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Struggle
  • Tongue
  • Impatient

• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Sleep
  • Weird
  • Clothes

• I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • May
  • Comedy
  • Follow

• We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • May
  • War

• I am old. I am young. I am Gwion, I am universal, I am possessed of penetrating wit.

  

  Taliesin

• Hark, hark! the larkOn windswept barkFreezes against a sky of lead!Now see him stop,Take one small hop,And suddenly keel over dead!

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Small
  • Stop
  • Sky

• 'I just got shot in the ass with an infected load of semen! Who's the smart-ass?'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Smart

• It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Crazy
  • Doubt

• As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Education

• I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world: that we shall abolish wars, and settle all international differences at the conference table: that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs, before they abolish us first.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • World
  • Hope
  • Peace

• I believe the climate is changing.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Believe

• The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.

  

  Charles Fort
  • God

• I have a great foundation, a great training foundation. But it took me a long time to let the training go.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.

  

  Jimmie Davis
  • Sunshine

• I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, I think it's safe to say.

  

  Chelsea Manning

• When I wanted someone to give me the world, you accepted me and smiled and let me know that you were my girl. When I wanted fancy things- gold watches, diamond rings, you gave me your hand ’cause only you could understand.

  

  Boyz II Men
  • Girl
  • Understand
  • Diamond

• They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Me
  • Create
  • I Can

• It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.

  

  Edmund White
  • Positive
  • Gay
  • Enemy

• The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Secret
  • Happy Life
  • Renunciation

• I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.

  

  Herb Ritts
  • Enemy
  • Knowing
  • Names