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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And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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There are some really interesting celebrities and people who are fun to interview, but when you have to do it every day because you have to fill a slot, the allure wears off.
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I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.
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Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.
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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.
