Martin Parr Quotes
I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.
Quotes to Explore
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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There are many successful startup funders who are looking for ways to make a difference in the world.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.
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I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
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As America's nuclear strategic monopoly faded, the United States sought to create advantages elsewhere, notably in the peaceful cooperation between the United States and communist China under Deng Xiaoping.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
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I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
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Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects.
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After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.
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There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.
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I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult – that kind of made me nervous.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first.
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The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.
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I was extremely shy. I am still shy, but I won't show it on stage.
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I realized I could work for a manufacturer or a hospital, or I could work for a company that enables the manufacturer, the hospital, and everything else.
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At nos non imperium neque divitias petimus, quarum rerum causa bella atque certamina omnia inter mortales sunt, sed libertatem, quam nemo bonus nisi cum anima simul amittit.
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I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.
