Brent Stirton Quotes

Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.

Brent Stirton

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• During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Movie

• I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Money
  • Confidence

• We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Women
  • Rock
  • Daily

• People don't usually compliment your character.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Character
  • Your

• I was born with an evil face.

  

  Barry Sloane
  • Evil
  • Born
  • Face

• Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Work
  • Women
  • Stability

• You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Team
  • Better

• We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • American
  • Dream
  • Rest

• The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Problem
  • Answer
  • Principle

• I would say that I bought the land under which Trump Tower sits while playing golf.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Trump
  • Golf

• During my high-risk pregnancy, I consistently experienced subpar care from my hospital, which led me to hire two midwives instead. They provided me with excellent and loving care, and they made my pregnancy a truly special and powerful moment in my life.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Life
  • High
  • Powerful

• The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.

  

  Diplo
  • Music
  • Kids
  • City

• Robert Mapplethorpe asked me to write our story the day before he died. I had never written a book of nonfiction, and so it took me almost two decades to write that book.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Book

• For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look!

  

  Lulu Kennedy-Cairns
  • People
  • Up
  • Aunt

• I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Strong
  • Desire
  • Drama

• At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Work
  • Help
  • Beginning

• It's not a straight line to do anything breaking the law. Because if it is, basically you're saying if I cop to having PTSD, I can go out and slap somebody around all I want, and when the cops show up, I can claim I am a veteran, and I got PTSD - that's not how that works.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • Up
  • Law
  • Veteran

• I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

  

  Jerry Doyle
  • People
  • Age
  • Brain

• Normally I play dads, good guys, and little animals.

  

  Frank Welker
  • Good

• I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you go, 'Why does that person need such a large entourage?' And then you realize that every single person there has a role to play.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • People
  • Why
  • Single

• I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • World
  • Love
  • Truth

• Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there’s a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don’t like it very much.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • May
  • Truth

• Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we...should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth.

  

  Vallabhbhai Patel
  • Life
  • God
  • Truth

• Photography is a weapon against what's wrong out there. It's bearing witness to the truth.

  

  Brent Stirton
  • Truth
  • Photography
  • Weapon