"I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don't find it easy. I don't announce it. I pretend to be focusing elsewhere. If you take someone's photograph it is very difficult not to look at them just after. But it's the one thing that gives the game away. I don't try and hide what I'm doing - that would be folly."

-- Martin Parr

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“I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.”
“But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.”
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, "Make it look good!" That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
“Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.”
“One thing I've always been grateful for is the diversity of my listeners.”

Source : "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010.
“We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature.”
“Logic is essentially a tool for getting at truth; it is the tool, for without it no reasoning is possible in any field of human enquiry whatsoever.”

Source : David S. Oderberg (2005). “The Old New Logic: Essays on the Philosophy of Fred Sommers”, p.183, MIT Press
“I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process.”

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