#lit

The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes. ↗

— John Shadegg

#collecting #currently #each #individual #number

I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#confess #dictatorial #doing #editing #his

I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of it and had me take pictures of people unbeknownst to them. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#around #felt #had #him #i

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#after #any #anybody #anywhere #been

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#decision #eye #facility #going #i

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#candle #deed #far #good #good deed

To do a great right do a little wrong. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#little #right #wrong

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#lest #little #mar #mind #should

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me. ↗

— Shakira

#fame #happen #happens #i #isolates

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words. ↗

— Shakira

#before #care #conscious #fact #feel