Danny Lyon Quotes

As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were foreign to me and that I had always feared.

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• The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I have more friends in New York than Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Friends
  • New
  • New York

• When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

  

  Manika
  • World
  • Experience
  • Audience

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Men
  • Words
  • Happiness

• When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Black
  • Know
  • Literature

• I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Trust

• I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • Population
  • Stabilization

• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Cool
  • Married
  • Entrepreneur

• I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling about and think it would be nice to be one of them.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Different
  • Think
  • Nice

• Composition has almost always been solitary.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • Always
  • Almost
  • Composition

• At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Times
  • U.S.
  • Some

• You don't know where life takes you.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• The Price Is Right can really get me going.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Me
  • Right
  • Price

• The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Love
  • Struggle

• What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Power
  • American
  • Science

• In Mexico, you have to defend yourself and your honour.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Mexico

• Elizabeth Warren is, I think, a great demonstration of the kind of movement-oriented model-wielding power from within the Senate. Over and over, she's rallied tons of people to battles that they don't normally get involved in.

  

  Ben Wikler
  • Senate
  • Battles
  • Demonstration

• It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Wife

• To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

  

  Lynne Truss
  • People
  • Children
  • Book

• I had a girlfriend (Marita Isaksen) when Europe had the international breakthrough and if there is something I regret, it's not being fair with her and playing it straight. There were a lot of girls on the side. Finally we went separate ways, but we found each other again, and today we have three children.

  

  Ian Haugland Europe
  • Children
  • Girl
  • Found

• I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Want
  • Stupid
  • Actor

• As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were foreign to me and that I had always feared.

  

  Danny Lyon
  • Children
  • Hands
  • Cameras