Martin Parr Quotes
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Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?
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I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
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Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?
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I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don't wanna do the same thing over and over again because that's, well, first of all that's no fun.
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I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.
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I'm 25 years old; I've had a good career, and the best is yet to come. I want to fight for the next 10 years, which will be better than my first 10 years.
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I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.
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Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown. Freedom of inquiry must be preserved under any plan for Government support of science...
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No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.
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'I think I prefer to be a Bear,' said Big Bru. 'I was born a Bear, and I know a Bear's ways. So I am satisfied to live as a Bear lives.'
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Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.
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Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
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You kind of get the same adjectives coming back over again and over again describing millennials. I think the national rhetoric around this generation is unfairly negative.
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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.
