Allan Sekula Quotes

Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

Allan Sekula

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• Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Want
  • Party
  • Care

• Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Great
  • Live
  • Think

• You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Internet
  • Awesome
  • Surgeon

• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

• I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

  

  Imelda May
  • Live
  • Art
  • College

• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Done
  • You
  • Muse

• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Morning
  • Three
  • Ship

• I will run against anybody.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Will
  • Run
  • Against

• If you're an average married couple, you're going to lie to your spouse in one out of every 10 interactions. Now, you may think that's bad. If you're unmarried, that number drops to three.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • May
  • Bad
  • Think

• It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Faith
  • Doing
  • Leap

• I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Fun
  • Years
  • Have Fun

• I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

  

  Caity Lotz
  • House
  • Hate
  • Imagination

• I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Suicide
  • Concerned
  • Soldiers

• You can wear a beautiful black dress that you've maybe had for years, but if you wear a fun shoe, you can completely change it. Wear something different, something sexy, something strappy, or something with pom poms.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Beautiful

• Signs are taken for wonders. 'We would see a sign!'The word within a word, unable to speak a word,Swaddled with darkness.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Taken

• Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension of the relationship that should exist between the people and the troops. The former may be likened to water the latter to the fish who inhabit it. How may it be said that these two cannot exist together?

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • Long
  • May

• I was in Africa Before the building of Rome. I came here To the remnant of Troy.

  

  Taliesin

• The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.

  

  Dominique Dawes
  • People
  • Positive
  • Gymnastics

• But politics demands, in the interests of each separate nation, guarantees for its independence and continued existence, special regulations to help its progress in culture, prosperity, and power, to build its society into a perfectly complete and harmoniously developed body politic, self-contained and independent.

  

  Friedrich List
  • Power
  • Help
  • Society

• Nothing deserves to be undone, doubtless because nothing deserved to be done.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Done

• At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Phase
  • Autographs

• Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Truth
  • Fear
  • Lies

• Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

  

  Allan Sekula
  • Truth
  • Black-and-white
  • Photos