Martin Parr Quotes

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.

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• I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • Years
  • More

• Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Think
  • Working
  • Now

• But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Long
  • Alone
  • Week

• I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Real
  • Home

• That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Right
  • Getting
  • Too

• In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Work
  • Done
  • Green

• I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Age
  • Play
  • Mom

• There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • America
  • Day

• If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Important
  • Song

• I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Speech

• I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Children
  • Style
  • Imagination

• Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Romantic

• I can't see myself spending the rest of my life as a judge.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Judge

• To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.

  

  Aldous Huxley

• I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Marriage

• Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Creativity

• When I was a young man working 14 hour days, I traded using outrageous and terrifying leverage. I was either very lucky, very smart or very dumb. That’s what terrifies people about commodities. Commodities themselves are no riskier than stocks. A stock on margin has more risk than a commodity fully paid for. It’s all about the degree of leverage.

  

  Jim Rogers
  • People
  • Risk
  • Smart

• If you go back and watch the original 'V,' you're like, 'Oh, I thought this was great. It kind of looks really cheesy.'

  

  Alan Tudyk
  • Great
  • Cheesy

• I see some parallels between then Lincoln's era and now. Certainly the division of ideologies between two parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In 1865, the Democrats were the Conservatives and the Republicans were the progressives, and today it's just the opposite.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Division
  • Ideologies
  • Parallels

• I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.

  

  Martin Parr