Anton Corbijn Quotes

My first pictures are from 1972, and my first proper camera dates back to 1973. During the first year I used my father's camera. It had a flash on it, which I don't like, but I didn't know anything about photography back then, so it was just what I did.

Anton Corbijn

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• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Children
  • Father

• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Work
  • Father

• Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

  

  Lactantius
  • Men
  • Father
  • Beginning

• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Father
  • Proud
  • Brother

• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Know

• My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

  

  Iman
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Independence

• I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Parents
  • Compassion
  • Affection

• As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Child
  • Architecture

• Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Taken
  • Easy
  • Still

• Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Book
  • Father
  • Day

• I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Men
  • Father

• Gun violence and social justice are near and dear to my heart. And they are so connected it's sad.

  

  Jason Winston George
  • Heart
  • Justice
  • Violence

• The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied.

  

  Ellen G. White

• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • God
  • Believe
  • Religion

• Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to be like PowerPoint presentations. I see documentaries as movies. So when I see some critics writing that we could have done without the recreations altogether - well, perhaps.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Expectation

• My first pictures are from 1972, and my first proper camera dates back to 1973. During the first year I used my father's camera. It had a flash on it, which I don't like, but I didn't know anything about photography back then, so it was just what I did.

  

  Anton Corbijn
  • Father
  • Photography