Martin H. Fischer Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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I'm emotionally unpredictable and all over the place.
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I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
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Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
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For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.
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If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
