Martin Parr Quotes
I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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Instead of going to the ends of the Earth - and plumbing the depths of the oceans - to squeeze out every last drop of oil, we need, instead, to do everything we can to reduce the risks of offshore oil and gas production.
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I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
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We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only' signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on.
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I've always believed that immigration is really about who we are as a country and what we're willing to stand up for.
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Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are- you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.
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I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.
