Hetherington Quotes

#1. As journalists, because you don't carry a gun, you sort of become this observer.

Tim Hetherington

#2. The only thing worse than being alone in the dark, is finding out you're not!

Gavin Hetherington

#3. There is nothing the heart doesn't already have. It's the mind that thinks it needs something more.

Michael Hetherington

#4. I have a set of images that go around the world in an art gallery installation. Each of them have different audiences, and they kind of each elucidate the subject in a slightly different way, and they ping off of each other.

Tim Hetherington

#5. Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. But it is also in terror, because those values are threatened, and it is not certain whether they will triumph in this world, and of course music is a missionary effort to colonise earth for imperialistic heaven.

Rebecca West

#6. I'm a documentary image maker, still and moving, because keeping the real world on the agenda is really important at a time when we're increasingly disconnected from parts of the world on whom we depend.

Tim Hetherington

#7. It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tim Hetherington

#8. If someone creates a Nobel Prize for Unsung Hero, my nominee will be the divorced single mother

E. Mavis Hetherington

#9. But this, perhaps, is the enduring lesson of mountaineering: once we've hit our target we are but halfway. Soldier on.

Sebastian Marshall

#10. The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.

Tim Hetherington

#11. It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

Tim Hetherington

#12. Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

Tim Hetherington

#13. I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.

Tim Hetherington

#14. Liberia is not at the center of a massive geopolitical game. Afghanistan is and has always been. The history is dramatic, the politics are dramatic, the landscape is incredibly dramatic.

Tim Hetherington

#15. I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

Tim Hetherington

#16. With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer.

Anthony Liccione

#17. Is it not more helpful and productive to ask the right questions then to give the right answers?

Michael Hetherington

#18. [Jim Graham] had been a linebacker at Penn State, and was seriously old-school. I mean, really old-school; like he thought the forward pass was a trick play.

Randy Pausch

#19. We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions.

Tim Hetherington

#20. Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy, so you can enlist that support group and get as much juice out of your film as possible. That's just practically, financially, what you need to do.

Tim Hetherington

#21. We're doing it wrong, absolutely wrong! Miss Universe should be about Space Exploration, Miss World about Science and Miss Earth about Going Green!

Manasa Rao

#22. You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

Tim Hetherington

#23. I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

Tim Hetherington

#24. In Lakefield View, everybody has a secret. Behind every smile lies a dark story. Behind every hello is a hidden goodbye.

Gavin Hetherington

#25. Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that in the world everything is interconnected really grew - to go to one of the poorest countries from one of the richest countries in the world. It was two worlds apart.

Tim Hetherington

#26. The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.

John Edwards

#27. The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now.

Tim Hetherington

#28. The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.

Tim Hetherington

#29. I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems we all end up this way. As we wait for our final day. But there's one thing about the pills I take. My manic episodes have taken a break

Stanley Victor Paskavich