Martin Lawrence Quotes
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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I did most of my schooling in Miami.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.
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Mr. Clyde Ross at that time, like most African Americans around the country, was unable to secure a loan, due to policies around redlining and deciding, you know, who deserved the loans and who doesn’t. There was a broad, broad consensus that African Americans, for no other reason besides blanket racism, could not be responsible homeowners.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.
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We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue.
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As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.
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As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.
