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

• Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Difficult

• 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

• Women in bed are kind of like diesel engines. You know, it may take a little bit to get them going, but once you do, they can run a long, long time. Men, on the other hand, we're more like...bottle rockets. <makes noise of a bottle rocket launching and then exploding> Ooh. Aah. <snores>

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Our discussion has shown that while in war many different roads can lead to the goal, to the attainment of the political object, fighting is the only possible means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Different
  • War
  • Political

• I'm intolerant often, especially of incompetence, particularly my own.

  

  Liz Trotta

• When we moved from 'Ice Age' to 'Ice Age 2,' we were really stuck; a story didn't just organically emerge. While I'm very proud of 'Ice Age 2,' from a storytelling sense, it's a very thin story.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Age
  • Proud

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

  

  Brent Stirton
  • Truth
  • Photography
  • Weapon