Cornell Capa Quotes
Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least provide and understanding mirror of man's actions, thereby sharpening human awareness and awakening conscience.
Quotes to Explore
-
Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
-
We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
-
The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.
-
I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
-
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
-
True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
-
I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
-
I've been taught in my life that you can have plans, but you can't count on them.
-
The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change skeptics or deniers, it's important to know that the Heartland Institute is first and foremost a free market think tank. It's not a scientific organization.
-
I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.
-
In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.
-
I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
-
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
-
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
-
Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.
-
There is a difference between not understanding and being willfully obtuse.
-
Fashion is a weapon that you can use when you need it.
-
Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'
-
We moved to the city when I was 7, and the lack of exercise made me frustrated. I started fighting with my sisters, and my parents put me in judo as an outlet. I became very competitive and won a lot of medals.
-
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
-
I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
-
...four very powerful corporate lobbies have repeatedly come out on top and turned our democracy into what might more accurately be called a corporatocracy.'
-
All partings foreshadow the great final one.
-
Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least provide and understanding mirror of man's actions, thereby sharpening human awareness and awakening conscience.
