Martin Parr Quotes

I love curating, because I'm lucky and privileged that I have a platform and I can share my discoveries with other people.

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• The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Want
  • Journey

• I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Should

• The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Cool
  • Happen
  • Most

• You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Art

• I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Like
  • Smell
  • Roses

• When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Black
  • Painting
  • Lie

• When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Found
  • Go
  • Coworkers

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Sports
  • Golf
  • Sound

• It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Fast
  • Languages
  • Pick

• I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • She
  • Age
  • Strong

• I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Good
  • Great
  • Heart

• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Home
  • Strong
  • Better

• We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Time
  • World
  • New Things

• On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Achieve
  • Anger
  • Apology

• World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Try
  • Talk

• Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered in light of later events.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • Time
  • Small
  • Light

• We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

  

  Michael F. Easley
  • Family
  • Remember
  • State

• I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Life
  • World
  • Spiritual

• I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Work
  • Thought

• As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long.

  

  Sania Mirza
  • People
  • Long
  • Care

• I love curating, because I'm lucky and privileged that I have a platform and I can share my discoveries with other people.

  

  Martin Parr
  • People