“The basic problem is that if you attempt to commit suicide with a gun, you typically succeed. It's also true that there is a more violent culture generally in the US. The US in general, has broader problems with crime, with social dysfunction, narcotics often, and all these work together with guns to create this epidemic.”

— Nicholas Kristof

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist

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Every person is different, but every sale is the same.

— Jordan Belfort

Stock Broker Convicted of Fraud; Subject of "The Wolf of Wall Street

Understanding sales cuts to the core of basically why people say yes, why people give you rejections, and what has to line up in someone's mind before they say yes. It doesn't matter what you're selling, it could be offline or online, tangible or intangible, expensive or inexpensive. It doesn't matter what it is.

— Jordan Belfort

Stock Broker Convicted of Fraud; Subject of "The Wolf of Wall Street

Only when I spent a year and a half writing a book, did I realise how long it takes you to do something to get a tangible result. It makes you respect money more when it comes from something you create, rather than just trading back and forth with someone else's cash.

— Jordan Belfort

Stock Broker Convicted of Fraud; Subject of "The Wolf of Wall Street

I don't think it's money that corrupts people, I really don't. I think it's the idea that when you make money without having a tangible creation attached to that money, it has no value.

— Jordan Belfort

Stock Broker Convicted of Fraud; Subject of "The Wolf of Wall Street

Images signify- mainly- something 'out there' in space and time that they have to make comprehensible to us as abstractions.

— David Bailey

Pioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography

We scrutinise a photograph with a sense that we are scrutinising the actual objects themselves, although they are distanced from us in time and space.

— David Bailey

Pioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography

When we look at a photograph, knowing that it is a photograph, we have a distinctive kind of experience: a visual confrontation with remote but actual objects and events.

— David Bailey

Pioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography

Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings 'ex-ist,' i.e. the world is not immediately accessible to them and therefore images are needed to make it comprehensible.

— David Bailey

Pioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography

Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

— David Bailey

Pioneering British fashion photographer who revolutionized 1960s portrait photography

The best portraits happen when you strip away all the pretense, all the masks people wear, and you find that raw, honest moment. That's when magic happens.

— Rankin