Saul Leiter Quotes

I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.

Saul Leiter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 3, 1923 - November 26, 2013

Topics

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There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.

John O'Toole

PeopleAdvertisingAmericanEnough

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

Robert Jarvik

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There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Robert Henri

PeopleThinkMightyWhoFew

I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.

Johnny Bench

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My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.

Simon Hoggart

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You have to do what is real and what is right and what is good and what you believe in. It doesn't mean it's always going to work. It doesn't. But when it does, it is truthful and forever.

Mitch Leigh

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In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

Mitt Romney

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I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

Juan Cole

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The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.

Joseph Brant

LoyaltyGreatKingPeopleBeenZeal

Know your power.

Jordan Knight

PowerKnowYour

Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.

Doug Aitken

CultureEnergyDistanceNeedSeen

That's the way I like it because there's no time to have nerves about it. You just run out and do it.

Doug Flutie

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