Martin Parr Quotes

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

Martin Parr

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• Awards don't really mean much.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Mean
  • Really
  • Awards

• The ox suffers, the cart complains.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Suffers
  • Complains
  • Cart

• I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Never
  • Working
  • Class

• It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Black
  • Violence
  • Plan

• Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.

  

  Edmund White
  • Paris
  • Land
  • Leave

• I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Journey
  • Common
  • Sharp

• Don't be afraid to look silly.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Look
  • Afraid
  • Silly

• The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • World
  • Think
  • Worry

• He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Strong
  • Strength
  • Others

• I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Learning

• I love the way they look. I love the way they feel. I love saying the word again and again: Jeggings! Jeggings! Jeggings!

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Look

• People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'

  

  Manny Montana
  • People
  • Up
  • Dating

• Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Power
  • Father
  • Best

• I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Business
  • Think

• Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.

  

  E. B. White
  • War
  • Bad
  • Law

• English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • People
  • English
  • Fire

• I would like to stress that the obligation of being Queen has always been driven by joy. The joy is rooted in the warmth that has met me and my family everywhere through every year, in celebration and joy as in sorrow, in the so-called 'big days', as well as in everyday life.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Life
  • Family
  • Joy

• My objection to Liberalism is this—that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind—namely, politics—of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Life
  • Business
  • Political

• I think the people of New York have done a pretty great job with coming together for Sandy relief.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• If we want to rediscover the radical message of Jesus, we must stop diluting it by focusing on power, peace of mind, and prosperity. Instead, we must embrace the truly radical message that invites us to find life through laying it down. Ironically—if we do this—we’ll actually find the life we’re looking for, unfamiliar as it may be.

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • Jesus
  • Message
  • Prosperity

• I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They're all saying the same thing -​ and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said -​ the basic things he laid down about love and goodness -​ and not what people say he said.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Believe
  • Jesus
  • Buddha

• Bitcoin can be programmed, metered, and exchanged by connected devices, enabling more efficient usage of our planet's resources and services.

  

  Jeremy Allaire

• Lee is such a brilliant rival. I treasure the opportunities we have to play each other.

  

  Lin Dan

• I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

  

  Martin Parr