Martin Lawrence Quotes
I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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Women just love to shop.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs and glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life - you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself.
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It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
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Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.
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As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought.
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I love all people; I hate no one.
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I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.
