Martin Parr Quotes
I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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It may sound cliché, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside.
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
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Take heed of loving me.
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everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.
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That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.
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I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.