Martin Parr Quotes
I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.
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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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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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If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.
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Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.
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The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone,Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan.
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You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.
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It's funny because there's a part of me that, if something is popular, I sort of become a defiant teenager about it. Like, 'Oh, I'm not gonna like that because everybody likes it.'
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I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.
