Lucio Tan Quotes

A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword.

Lucio Tan

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• Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • She
  • Book
  • Success

• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Think
  • Future
  • Party

• Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • Water
  • Building
  • Development

• To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

  

  Man Ray
  • Society
  • Painter
  • Useful

• I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.

  

  Harish Rawat
  • Wave
  • Candidate
  • Virtually

• I'm the kind of guy who, I need a watch that tells me what day it is. I need to know it's Friday on my watch. I need to look at it and go, 'Friday today.' Tomorrow I will not know it's Saturday until I look at my watch. My watchband broke, I was crippled. I have no concept of time, I have no concept of dates.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Today

• Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

  

  Tacitus
  • Never
  • Agreement
  • Unite

• He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it at demand.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Wish

• A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

  

  Bernard Baruch
  • Future

• In film school, you get skills, but then you get lackey jobs, working on projects that you probably don't care about. And there's something in me where I just couldn't bring myself to edit some misogynistic rom-com or movies that I would have hated to be a part of. So I knew I just wouldn't get any work because of that.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Work
  • School

• I'm able to tell when I'm in a bad place or super-sad and move on. When you're stuck somewhere, you need to change something to shift the energy.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Bad
  • Energy
  • Sad

• The first time I saw 'Macbeth' was not the entire play. It was at acting school, and this student was working on Lady Macbeth's soliloquy. I felt something very special, and I knew then that I would one day experience Lady Macbeth, but I always thought it would be on stage and in French.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Time
  • School
  • Experience

• I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Good
  • Taken
  • Confidence

• I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in Vegas called 'Love's Way.'

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Parents
  • Vegas

• I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I like Mutemath a lot.

  

  Kris Allen

• It's easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Appreciation

• Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.

  

  Charles Duhigg

• My poetry is a declaration of war, not an exordium to defeat. It is not the defeated soldier's drumbeat of despair, but the fighting warrior's will to win. It is not the de-spirited voice of dejection but the stirring shout of victory.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Poetry

• When you’re working with Army and Marine Corps units, you immediately notice a difference. The Army is pretty tough, but their performance can depend on the individual unit. Some are excellent, filled with hoorah and first-class warriors. A few are absolutely horrible; most are somewhere in between. In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Every one of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Mother

• It has been my impression that at any gathering, whether it be public or private, those who are quickest to inject words like sensitivity, empathy, consensus, trust, confidentiality, and togetherness into their arguments have perverted these humanitarian words into power tools to get others to adapt to them.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Public
  • Arguments
  • Humanitarian

• For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Good
  • Singing

• A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword.

  

  Lucio Tan
  • Warrior