Martin Parr Quotes

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

Martin Parr

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EarlyPhoneDoneWriteOpenUp

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

John Malkovich

WorkTimePaintingStorySpeedYou

A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.

John James Audubon

WorkMeDriveBetterFeelGo

The debate between the cloud and on-premise is largely dead. The cloud has become mainstream.

Aneel Bhusri

CloudDebateBecomeDeadBetween

Slash, Axl, Duff, Izzy and I are all brothers. Axl and his lawyers cannot take away what we had. As long as we are alive, we have it. We are brothers and what do brothers do? We fight. I may not like them all the time, but I will always love them.

Steven Adler

LoveTimeFightLongLawyersAlive

The glib, facile, simplistic, and prefabricated language by which we as consumers are constantly surrounded is a language that flatters us, that urges us to indulge ourselves, to get away from it all, to be unique by opting in, talking back, liking us on Facebook, leaving a review, sharing, retweeting, etc.

Tracy K. Smith

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I feel like I'm just going to go full speed and tackle. If that means there is friendly fire on my guy, then that's what I gotta do. I try not to do that because I know I'll lay a big hit on them, but if that's what I gotta do, that's what I'll do just to make sure that tackle gets made.

Jason Pierre-Paul

FireFeelSpeedGoKnowTry

I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the spirit within that, is one of the guiding principles in my life.

Jon Batiste

LifeMeBibleThoughtChurchSpirit

My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.

Chesley Sullenberger

WifeSomeoneRiskHeroismSheSee

Like civil suits, criminal investigations take the president's focus away from his or her responsibilities to the people.

Brett Kavanaugh

FocusPeopleSuitsPresidentTake

You know, for myself, my personal journey has been a very fortunate one and I would say to people it's like the stars lined up and the skies opened up and the sun shined and I met the right people - was at the right time. And, most importantly, you know I love what I do.

Phillip Lim

LoveStarsJourneyTimeMyselfSun

Suddenly, when you have kids, you become responsible for these other people - like if something's not working out at school. I learned to speak out.

Susan Wojcicki

SchoolPeopleSpeakYouBecomeOut

Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape. This helps us to recognize prey and predators.

Seth Shostak

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