Martin Parr Quotes
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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I like how small you can be on TV.
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Nelson Mandela, a better man, not a bitter man, made our world a better place in which to live. His life and leadership exemplify the highest courage, dignity, and dedication to human liberation.
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I used to live with Teri Toye in the '80s - a really gorgeous transsexual. She won Girl of the Year in 1986 [I think] as a Chanel model and she introduced this whole way of slinky, slow-motion modeling. It was amazing that the girl of the year was actually born male.
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Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
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I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.
