Edward Burtynsky Quotes

Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.

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• Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.

  

  Ornella Muti
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• Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
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• I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

  

  Oksana Baiul
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• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  

  Gabe Newell
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• I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Fun
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• The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
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• In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.

  

  Carey Williams
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• You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.

  

  Rand Beers
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• My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

  

  Aberjhani
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• We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

  

  Ted Yoho
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• An example of my average week would be the gym on Monday; Tuesday will be a technical session. I practice running and high jump on Thursday and then have another technical session at the weekend.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.

  

  Laura Trott
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• I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• There have always been different opinions on some elements of our sanction policy. It will probably stay that way... What is important is that we keep this unity and decide all together.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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• It's the WWE; it's Vince McMahon's show. He lays out what he wants from you. It's not always going to be what I want.

  

  Dolph Ziggler

• My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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• I have a small studio set up in my house in Athens. I'll wake up, have a nice breakfast, and I won't surface until dinnertime. I'm very domesticated in that way.

  

  Washed Out
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• Between you and me, odd things happen always on set.

  

  Max von Sydow

• What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

  

  Archibald Cox
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• Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.

  

  Edward Burtynsky