Martin Parr Quotes
We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record.Martin Parr
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender -
To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
Queen Latifah -
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
Ed Sheeran -
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono -
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
Warren Bennis -
I'm an honest, open father.
T.I.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
Sam Wyly -
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Jack Bruce Cream -
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
Oliver Stone -
At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
Candice Swanepoel -
I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
Carlene Carter -
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
Idris Elba -
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
Yakov Smirnoff -
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
Abraham Kuyper -
I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
Victoria Justice -
Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
Vanessa Redgrave -
I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
Kangana Ranaut
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Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.
Walter Annenberg -
You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.
Charlotte Rampling -
I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light!
Bahá'u'lláh -
'Until you can ignore your circumstances, and just do as you promise,' he says, 'you'll always be controlled by the world.'
Chuck Palahniuk -
We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record.
Martin Parr