Martine Syms Quotes

I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers.

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• In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Time
  • Same
  • Possible

• I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

  

  Larry King
  • You
  • Better
  • Brooklyn

• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Person
  • Honor
  • Reward

• I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Yourself
  • Loved
  • Hated

• I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Just
  • Going

• I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Bad
  • Like

• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Power
  • Always
  • Influence

• I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Think
  • Crush
  • Shirley Manson

• Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Never

• I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Special

• My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Small

• Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Mistakes
  • Memory

• I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Kids
  • Old
  • Talk

• I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Novelist

• If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Books
  • Thing
  • Bookstore

• I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.

  

  Origen
  • Life
  • God
  • Progress

• It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Clouds
  • Silver
  • Technological

• That's just a really catchy song, and I don't know if we want to release such a catchy song. I'd rather kinda push people's brains. I'd hate being known as the band that is recognized for that song. So I don't know. ... It's weird with our songs because it's like the weirdest song that you would never think could be a single becomes a single.

  

  Shavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian Achozen
  • Hate
  • Band
  • Known

• It's no fun being lonely.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Fun
  • Lonely

• I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

  

  Alan Ball

• Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Faith
  • Knowledge
  • Feelings

• I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers.

  

  Martine Syms