Martin Parr Quotes

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

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• If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • High
  • Pretty
  • You

• Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Good
  • Long
  • Health

• Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love

• We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Better
  • Performance
  • Sales

• Social revolutions are never simple.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Simple
  • Never
  • Revolutions

• I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Know
  • Film
  • Nostalgia

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Courage
  • Dreams

• I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Torture

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • Independence

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Mad

• I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Learning
  • Christmas
  • Spanish

• I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Good
  • Decision

• The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Job
  • Feeling

• A Computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state machines.

  

  Alan Cox
  • People

• My family is Chinese-Taiwanese. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. The community in which I grew up was pretty white. The storybooks you got at school featured white children and an animal, or animals, and as you got older, the novels you were assigned were about, like, the problems of white boys and their dogs.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Time
  • World
  • Trying

• I've always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist. He really was a social commentator in many ways and was trying to satirize Victorian society.

  

  James Bobin
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Society

• In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

  

  Martin Parr
  • World
  • Photography