Martin Lawrence Quotes
If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.
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I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
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I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements.
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I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.
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There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.
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I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.
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re: Abraham Lincoln 'Shall we stop this bleeding.'
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He left the name at which the world grew pale,To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
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I immediately felt so comfortable there. Or if not comfortable, at least willing to bear the discomforts because they fit the awkward places in my heart.
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There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.
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I guess that I'm just a plain wild dude.
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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
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In this day and age of texts, Twitter, and Facebook, we are very rarely surprised by anything anymore - something always leaks out and gets spoiled.
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I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.
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There is God, and it doesn't matter who you are or what you are doing, there is God in this world, and there's a lot of love for everyone, and it doesn't matter where you are from, the important thing for me when I read The Shack script - the thing that Jesus is, he is a friend.
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If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.
