Mary Ellen Mark Quotes

I'm not much for cats. I'm terrified of mice. I've worked a lot with elephants, and they are extremely intelligent and sensitive, and thankfully, they seem to like me. You never want to get on the bad side of an elephant. And never trust a chimp.

Mary Ellen Mark

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TrustCatsMeElephantYouBad

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

Jennifer Egan

WriterExclusiveHappiestStates

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

John Wozniak

TimeBrainEnoughPlayGetLike

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

Amartya Sen

CommunityCollegeStudentActive

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

St. Vincent

ThinkRightNirvanaHonestLikeJam

We've gotten so far away from our food source. It's been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It's that simple.

Ron Finley

WaterFoodSimpleYourselfPlant

Coffee connects us in so many ways - to each other, to our senses, and to the earth that supports the coffee trees.

Rohan Marley

CoffeeTreesEarthUsSensesOur

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.

Mitt Romney

GodHeartGreatPeopleWorldLoving

Pete Docter's a genius isn't he?

Diane Lane

GeniusHe

I come up with the silliest excuses when it's time to work out. I'll be like, 'Oh no! Now I have to go and find some socks.'

Christina Hendricks

WorkTimeExcusesFindSocksGo

Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it is hard to stick around.

Bruce Willis

WorkBestThoughtEnoughNewHard

I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.

Alice Hoffman

ThinkRealSameSeemFarBetween

I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

Alice Sebold

ListeningSeriouslyShyOthersNever

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