Martin Parr quote: "Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it."

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really w...
MARTIN PARR

In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work i...
MARTIN PARR

Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the...
MARTIN PARR

When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am ...
MARTIN PARR

I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited a...
MARTIN PARR

Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that...
MARTIN PARR

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of so...
MARTIN PARR

My biggest television weakness is 'Dragons' Den.'
MARTIN PARR

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.
MARTIN PARR

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of r...
MARTIN PARR

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they have...
MARTIN PARR

If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictu...
MARTIN PARR

I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.
MARTIN PARR

I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of ...
MARTIN PARR

Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not...
MARTIN PARR

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and prof...
MARTIN PARR

The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
MARTIN PARR

When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to p...
MARTIN PARR

Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn&...
MARTIN PARR

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.
MARTIN PARR

If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food ...
MARTIN PARR

Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, no...
MARTIN PARR

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
MARTIN PARR

Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.
MARTIN PARR

For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring sho...
MARTIN PARR

Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR

With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a...
BEN PARR

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
ELLEN PARR

Two i's company, three i's trumpery.
MRS. PARR

Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made t...
BEN PARR

There is a proven model with putting ads on the site, but it has to be in volume.
BARRY PARR

When you're in the mall, facing a human with a purchase in your hand, you're a lot less likely to dr...
BARRY PARR

Even the most intensive users of newspapers and magazines spend less time reading these publications...
BARRY PARR

The challenge is that the interface on a cell phone is so poor that anything you can do to reduce th...
BARRY PARR

They are looking for certain red flags, verifying addresses, looking for certain behaviors that are ...
BARRY PARR

Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting t...
BEN PARR

This doesn't change the competitive landscape, but it does add some long-needed features for members...
BARRY PARR

Few sites have garnered the kind of trust and loyalty that brands like Coca-Cola have. Portals that ...
BARRY PARR

AOL customers bought $2.5 billion worth of goods last year. What that means is a lot of transactions...
BARRY PARR

I can see this being interesting for professionals who might be tracking stories about a company, fo...
BARRY PARR

The portal business is all about stealing things from the competition. Go hasn't done anything that ...
BARRY PARR

Still, I'm pretty positive about the site. A lot of their stuff is interesting.
BARRY PARR

If someone wants to know more about the flavors, soil and vintage, you can go on. But I don't think ...
RAJAT PARR

It means that the number of people keeping their eyes on the skies is greatly diminished... I put it...
CHRIS PARR

I feel some of the City Council has lost the concept that they are the employer and the city manager...
CHARLES PARR

My opponent is a lifetime employee of the government.
CHARLES PARR

My connection with Jesse and Linda is purely professional. I'm mean, we're friends, but I didn't kno...
CHARLES PARR

It's just a great fundraiser. The employees and visitors seem to like it. I'm excited to have them c...
BRENDA PARR

It seems they have a better selection. There are a variety of books here. It looks real good.
BRENDA PARR

We've been having them for a while. We try to have two or three of them a year.
BRENDA PARR

In general, a lot of the predicted adoption of fancier, so-called rich media ads just hasn't happene...
BARRY PARR

There are no karaoke dreamers on this show.
CHRIS PARR

I addressed the tax issue straight up without any fluff. The questions were asked and I answered the...
CHARLES PARR

More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be cons...
BEN PARR

That's just where we ended up. Both teams graduated some people and I think it's a tribute to both t...
DON PARR

Our girls thought that play was off-side. The puck had cleared the zone, and when they scored we wer...
DON PARR

The experience paid off. We had a couple lapses, but we were able to come back.
DON PARR

People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.
DELIA PARR

It?s the same old problem, we refuse to be patient and disciplined on offense. A lot of it was due t...
DAN PARR

I liked it when they were pressing us full court. We broke through that. But in our half-court set w...
DAN PARR

Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues thro...
BEN PARR

The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying int...
BEN PARR

There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet th...
BEN PARR

I'm proud to call myself a Mashable alumnus.
BEN PARR

Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at an...
BEN PARR

Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will ...
BEN PARR

What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship b...
BEN PARR

Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie...
BEN PARR

The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
BEN PARR

Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someo...
BEN PARR

This is not the kind of market in which anyone would want to put a premium on the company.
MARK PARR

We can teach them a skill and they can teach others.
LES PARR

We want to be part of the community, we want to live with the Rwandan community to bring the people ...
LES PARR

I think it would be silly to not have a chat. He fits our criteria. He's just captained a grand fina...
PETER PARR

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death...
MARTIN

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love ca...
MARTIN

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul gene...
MARTIN

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
MARTIN

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that ...
MARTIN SELIGMAN

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of t...
MARTIN SCORSESE

Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the soc...
MARTIN FILLER

We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an...
MARTIN CHALFIE

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God'...
MARTIN LUTHER

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.
MARTIN SCORSESE

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
STEVE MARTIN

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this:...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Only a god can save us.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of cor...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former -...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Language is the house of the truth of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our syst...
MARTIN SCORSESE

My idea of a good night out is staying in.
MARTIN FREEMAN

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
STEVE MARTIN

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
STEVE MARTIN

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way ...
STEVE MARTIN

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
STEVE MARTIN

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easi...
STEVE MARTIN

What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an act...
STEVE MARTIN

Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, bec...
STEVE MARTIN

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
STEVE MARTIN

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.
STEVE MARTIN

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They ca...
STEVE MARTIN

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the ...
STEVE MARTIN

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in...
STEVE MARTIN

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent re...
STEVE MARTIN

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
STEVE MARTIN

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
STEVE MARTIN

Well, excuuuuuse me!
STEVE MARTIN

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
STEVE MARTIN

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
STEVE MARTIN

It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it ...
MAX MARTIN

Nothing good ever comes of violence.
MARTIN LUTHER

What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in th...
WALTER MARTIN

Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gif...
WALTER MARTIN

I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremel...
WALTER MARTIN

I am not an enemy of Adventism.
WALTER MARTIN

The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
WALTER MARTIN

Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to ...
WALTER MARTIN

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
WALTER MARTIN

Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe...
WALTER MARTIN

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
WALTER MARTIN

You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have rea...
WALTER MARTIN

The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separat...
WALTER MARTIN

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of Go...
WALTER MARTIN

Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same...
DEMETRI MARTIN

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.
DEMETRI MARTIN

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
STEVE MARTIN

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindnes...
MARTIN SCORSESE

Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to ...
MARTIN ZWEIG

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
MARTIN SCORSESE

My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big...
CATHERINE MARTIN

God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There sh...
MARTIN O'MALLEY

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than...
MARTIN LUTHER

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
MARTIN LUTHER

'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the fut...
MARTIN VILLENEUVE

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fictio...
MARTIN AMIS

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
DEMETRI MARTIN

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day,...
MARTIN CHEMNITZ

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can...
MARTIN SELIGMAN

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
MARTIN LUTHER

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't ...
MARTIN LUTHER

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
MARTIN LUTHER

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it...
MARTIN LUTHER

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in expl...
MARTIN LUTHER

When schools flourish, all flourishes.
MARTIN LUTHER

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
MARTIN LUTHER

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
MARTIN LUTHER

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each...
MARTIN LUTHER

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
MARTIN LUTHER

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick a...
MARTIN LUTHER

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
MARTIN LUTHER

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...
MARTIN LUTHER

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
MARTIN LUTHER

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
MARTIN LUTHER

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justic...
MARTIN LUTHER

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous ...
MARTIN LUTHER

Forgiveness is God's command.
MARTIN LUTHER

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
MARTIN LUTHER

Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have...
MARTIN JACQUES

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
MARTIN MCDONAGH

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
MARTIN SCORSESE

In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that t...
MARTIN JACQUES

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was b...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS

The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to...
MARTIN MCDONAGH

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is...
MARTIN SELIGMAN

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long ...
MARTIN REES

For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose an...
MARTIN BASHIR

I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution...
MARTIN LUTHER

Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and c...
GEORGE MARTIN

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more l...
MARTIN SELIGMAN

Let me put it like this: I am not prepared to officiate over on behalf of the British government wha...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS

If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British go...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the ...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being rel...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS

We've always been able to get consistent work habits out of our kids. Not just during the year, but ...
AL MARTIN

That was some violent, violent weather. We're sitting in the clubhouse watching on TV and wondering,...
AL MARTIN

That was some violent, violent weather,
AL MARTIN

[In his column] FEMA Sends Katrina Survivors to American Gulag; Municipal Bond Holders at Risk, ... ...
AL MARTIN

I thought we played a very solid game on both sides of the ball. Getting those first two touchdowns ...
AL MARTIN

The 2006 budget crisis is looming, provoked by the fiscal policies of the Bush Cheney Regime, ... Th...
AL MARTIN

Pat's comments created a so-called 'flight to quality' bid in both the September long bonds and the ...
AL MARTIN

And, I really admire them. I guess we try to show them as much appreciation as possible.
AL MARTIN

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

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Martin Parr

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

Martin Parr

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