Martin Parr Quotes
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.
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There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
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I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.
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A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
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I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
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My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1.
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All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.
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It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
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It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.
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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
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If you look at the trends, China very well could be the driver of the adoption of block chain consumer services.
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A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.
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A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.
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I'm like a sponge: I like to listen.
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Much of the securitization took the form of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) with senior credit tranches certified by rating agencies as AAA. It was the failure to properly price such risky assets that characterized the crisis.
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Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.
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That's the strength of our offense, no doubt.
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My profile is bigger in Europe than it is in the U.K.
