Martin Jacques Quotes
Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to confer a sense of reality on the loss but also because it makes it known that this was a real life.
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I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.'
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These “undocumented workers” from south of the border may have come here illegally, but they have long ago integrated themselves into their communities. Once here, they obey the laws. They pay taxes. Many of their sons and daughters serve in the military. They make up the majority of the workforce in several key industries: agricultural workers, child care, kitchen help in restaurants, housecleaning, maid service in hotels, and more. I’ve seen the great contribution they’ve made to their communities in California. Like generations of immigrants before them, they have become American citizens by choice, not by birth. They are, in effect, already citizens in every respect but one. It’s now important to make it official, as Ronald Reagan did, and grant them citizenship—or at least a path to citizenship—in order to save families from the fear of being torn apart by federal agents.
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Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.
