National Geographic Quotes - Page 2

• In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff.

  Big Sean

  Inspiration, Lions, Gazelles

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Though Geographic didn't publish that photo in the story that it was done for, "The Life of Charlie Russell," a cowboy artist in Montana. But later, maybe a year and a half ago, they named it one of the 50 greatest pictures ever made at National Geographic.

  Sam Abell

  Artist, Cowboy, Years

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• Increasingly, it's people not interested in National Geographic.

  Sam Abell

  People, Not Interested

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry.Apart from the increased travel, I won't let anything interfere with writing poetry.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Children, Couple, Book

  Source: poetryforchildren.blogspot.com

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• At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.

  Werner Herzog

  Pbs, Vapid, Roaches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility when you're trespassing. I think you haven't seen a film on volcanoes like that before. It's not National Geographic. It is wildly imaginative and very poetic and has a sense of awe that you normally do not see in films.

  Werner Herzog

  Responsibility, Thinking, Volcanoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did it once, and National Geographic recruited me. I did it primarily out of curiosity. A lot of legendary photographers had worked on that campaign. Ernst Haas had done the early photography, and I knew him. There's a lore in photography about that campaign, and I was curious.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Curiosity, Campaigns

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible to achieve that.

  Sam Abell

  Careers, Would Be, Impossible

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years, and I said that my career came to an appropriate close, and I still loved photography. Not everybody who spends their career at anything ends up fascinated and involved with it.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Years, Careers

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• Everyone thinks it would be great to work for National Geographic. So did I.

  Peter Menzel

  Thinking, Would Be

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• Human experience comes suspended in the sickly-sweet amniotic fluid of commercial photography. And a world normally animated by abrasive differences is blithely reduced to a single, homogeneous National Geographic way of seeing.

  Geoffrey Batchen

  Photography, Sweet, Differences

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• [Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.

  Martin Nolan

  Special, President, Television

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• Today, National Geographic has a membership side with a magazine and some television side, and they generate about a billion dollars in revenue, and they're profitable. And so at the end of the year they have some bottom line profit which they can then reinvest, because they're running it as a not-for-profit in charitable endeavors.

  Steve Case

  Running, Business, Years

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• In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of fashion magazines, out of The Economist, out of Time. I'm making a sketch, but I'm using the existing images that have been put out in the world.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Fashion, Real, Thinking

  "A Fantastic Journey Into the Mind of Collage Artist Wangechi Mutu". Interview with Benjy Hansen-Bundy, www.motherjones.com. October 12, 2013.

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