Danny Lyon Quotes

The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.

Danny Lyon

• Gym
• Cameras
• Cells
• Entrances
• Lockers

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• Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • School
  • Think

• My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Businessman

• I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Fate

• The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Feel

• My whole thing is being a coach, a GM, and a president: you all got to be attached at the hip. There's got to be no separation between you. The players got to know it's one voice: we're all in this together; we're going to do this right.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Together
  • Know
  • Voice

• Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Future
  • Imagination
  • Key

• At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

  

  James Gleick
  • Words
  • Single

• We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.

  

  Marta Kristen
  • Good
  • Future

• I think there's little things you can do with a dermatologist that can stave off major, giant surgery, which is really scary. But I'm all for, if something's bothering you, fix it. At least talk to somebody to see what it would take to fix it, and see if that's for you or not.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Scary

• I was dumped at my senior prom - I was 18 and in love. We danced all night, then she got back together with her ex. It broke my heart.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Heart
  • She
  • Together

• I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

  

  James Avery
  • Training

• 'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

  

  Don Cornelius
  • Soul

• I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

  

  LeAnn Rimes

• I can watch a film, even a film that I've been in, and think, 'I'm not sure, 100 percent, what I think about it.' I'm not sure what I think about what I've done in it.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Done

• In comics, my experience has been mostly artists whose visual storytelling chops are either weak or they're more invested in rushing to a paycheck than in doing work they can be proud of.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Proud

• The need to look behind the curtain is great for a filmmaker. But whether you want to deconstruct what you like as a viewer, what you like and don't like, I wish we could let films stand on their own a little bit.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Great
  • Wish

• Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.

  

  Leslie Jones
  • People
  • Together

• Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

  

  Hadewijch
  • God

• I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Done
  • Art
  • Today

• We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the least we can do is admit to it when we succumb to our instincts.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • World
  • Desire

• If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don't think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He's there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he'll rip your face off.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Rock

• Each one of us is an individual, just like talk show hosts are different from one another, and newspaper columnists are different from each other. So, former presidents are different from each other, too. Some have gone into relative seclusion. Some have decided to teach.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Different
  • Individual

• The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.

  

  Danny Lyon
  • Gym
  • Cameras
  • Cells