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

• Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Give
  • Birth
  • Shalt

• 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

• It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• 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

• Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Live
  • Los Angeles

• 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

• We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• You take it for granted that interpretations of events change, but that certain definite events occurred that are beyond alteration. Instead, the events themselves are not nearly that concrete. You accept one probable event. Someone else may experience instead a version of that event, which then becomes that individual’s felt reality.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • May
  • Experience
  • Reality

• The truth of the matter is President Trump brought together the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

  

  Reince Priebus
  • Truth
  • President
  • Movement

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

  

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