Lauren Greenfield Quotes

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

Lauren Greenfield

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• The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Future
  • Way
  • Religious

• It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Decisions

• Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Family
  • Love
  • House

• There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Truth
  • Consensus

• We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Diplomacy
  • United Nations

• When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • She
  • True

• I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Work
  • Control
  • I Can

• So much about 'Rookie' has been very organically familial among our contributors, among our readers. Yeah, if I interview someone like Lorde, who I do know outside of work - sometimes I'm just so happy; it's so cool that this is organically, effortlessly, the warm, supportive friend vibe that we want here.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Friend

• Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Never

• The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Song
  • Inspired

• If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Guy

• Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Up
  • World
  • Love

• I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strong

• I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • College

• A celebrated and hugely popular actress in her native Iran, Ahangarani first landed on the radar of the Iranian authorities for her open support of opposition figure Mir-Hossein Mousavi, which led to her arrest in July 2009 in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election in Iran.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Support
  • Popular
  • First

• That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Life
  • Own
  • Away

• You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • You
  • Need

• I've never been a great one for technology.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Never

• The most passionate fans are from India, and I hope that I can motivate more Indians to pursue wrestling - or any athletics, for that matter - and become champions.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Hope
  • Wrestling

• It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those.

  

  James Salter
  • Great
  • Men
  • Real

• Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

  

  Shakira
  • Writing
  • Challenge
  • English

• Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

  

  Peter Abelard
  • World
  • God
  • Death

• I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

  

  Lauren Greenfield