Erik Johansson Quotes

I don't capture moments, I capture ideas.

Erik Johansson

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• When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • War
  • Media

• This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • People
  • Woman
  • Happiness

• I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Think
  • Curious

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Moment

• I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Why
  • Team
  • Competition

• A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Free
  • Hero
  • Soldier

• Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Why
  • Play
  • Canada

• If you have less weight, you have less strength.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • You
  • Strength
  • Weight

• If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Moving On

• I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Star
  • Wanted
  • Disney

• The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Different
  • Idea

• I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Sure

• I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • She
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Think
  • Space

• I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Thought

• The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Great
  • Important
  • Small

• Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Love
  • Moments

• Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Grow

• I don't capture moments, I capture ideas.

  

  Erik Johansson
  • Moments
  • Ideas