Nicholas Nixon Quotes

I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.

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• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Today
  • You
  • Fireworks

• One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Years
  • President
  • First

• I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Country
  • Athlete
  • Media

• Nobody would let us do 'Crisis' again.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Crisis
  • Nobody
  • Again

• Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so special to look at but seems like a very normal person. She's true to herself - that's important to me.

  

  Ymre Stiekema
  • Important
  • True
  • Like

• It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of weird because I've done senior all year, but I didn't get to compete last year because of my elbow.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Time
  • Done
  • Kind

• I love tap!

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Tap

• Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Country
  • Equals
  • Bolivia

• There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

  

  Prince Charles
  • People
  • Good

• I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor

• Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio.

  

  Freddie Wong

• The fact is, women don't like to talk about money, let alone deal with it. Though we're killing it at work, earning more than ever, running our households, and making big-ticket decisions, too many women still worry they'll be judged by what they earn and how they spend it.

  

  Alexa Von Tobel
  • Work
  • Women
  • Money

• I played a waiter on 'Will & Grace,' a waiter on 'Medium' and on 'Weeds.' They all got cut out. I'm an awful waiter in real life. Maybe I was an awful waiter on screen, too.

  

  Kyle Bornheimer
  • Life
  • Real

• I saw 'Birth' at the Sundance Film Festival with a thousand other strangers, and I couldn't believe that was me in the film. I didn't recognize myself.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • Believe

• Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Decision
  • Leadership
  • Popular

• I don't always take off my make-up before bed, and I like pizza at two in the morning.

  

  Katie Holmes
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Pizza

• For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned.

  

  Ashton Sanders
  • American
  • History

• I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Want

• Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Real
  • May
  • Journey

• Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Literature
  • Crisis
  • France

• I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.

  

  Nicholas Nixon
  • Adventure
  • Project
  • Pictures