Alexey Brodovitch Quotes

The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.

Alexey Brodovitch

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• Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

  

  Tea Leoni
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• Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

  P. T. Barnum
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• I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

  

  Idris Elba
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• You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

  e. e. cummings
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• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• I've got a clear line between work and real life.

  

  Ed Westwick
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• The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.

  

  Sam Jaeger
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• All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

  

  M. C. Gainey
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• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
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• My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
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• I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Life
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• My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.

  

  Inga Muscio
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• Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.

  

  Nate Parker
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• I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
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• Everyone wants to get into soundtracks. Everyone wants to do songs here and there. But, I think they want it for different reasons. I think I'm just tumbling through my life, enjoying playing with everybody.

  

  Liz Phair
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• We’re the US Senate here to help people, and if we’re not helping people, we should go the fuck home.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
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• I think women should be armed but should not vote … women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it … it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care.

  

  Ann Coulter
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  • Education

• In the past, Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, of which SEAL Team 6 is a key component, has only launched ground raids in Yemen when the lives of hostages held by al Qaeda seemed at risk.

  

  Peter Bergen
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• I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.

  

  Doug Liman
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• The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.

  

  Alexey Brodovitch
  • Life
  • Photographer
  • Butterfly