Closest Cousin Quotes

#1. I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

Alec Soth

#2. Value system also comes from the mass media of the land.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.

Maurice Hinchey

#4. Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

Winston Churchill

#5. Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

Louis Althusser

#6. Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.

Paolo Sorrentino

#7. I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppeteering was only there as a hobby. I wanted to be a journalist. When I was 19, and after I had spent about a year in college, Jim Henson asked me to come out and try puppeteering for awhile.

Frank Oz

#8. Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that means? No condoms.

Chris Hardwick

#9. When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

Lee DeWyze

#10. The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.

Richard Lugar

#11. Whether we find it appealing or not is another question, but personally I like being fourth cousin to a mushroom and having a bonobo as my closest living relative. It makes me feel a part of the world.

Richard Fortey

#12. So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.

Pat Summerall

#13. What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.

FKA Twigs

#14. Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

Andre Gide

#15. I believe everybody in the world should try to help somebody else. Let's say half the people in the world are successful. If they help the other half, hey, you've got no problem.

Louis Zamperini

#16. Because scientists are reasonable men, one or another argument will ultimately persuade many of them. But there is no single argument that can or should persuade them all. Rather than a single group conversion, what occurs is an increasing shift in the distribution of professional allegiances.

Thomas S. Kuhn

#17. You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that.

Mark Hamill

#18. If this is where you ask me to run around in my birthday suit, I'm not entirely comfortable with that, I said, smirking.

Laura Kreitzer