Mark Teixeira Quotes
My closet is in perfect order at home. All my dress shirts, all my casual shirts. All my suits, they're color coordinated. All my ties are color coordinated.
Quotes to Explore
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.
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Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.
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The type of girls that would sleep with you in a heartbeat aren't the type of girls I'd want to take home anyway.
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I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned.
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... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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My closet is in perfect order at home. All my dress shirts, all my casual shirts. All my suits, they're color coordinated. All my ties are color coordinated.
