Martin Lewis Perl Quotes
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?
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All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.
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It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.
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I want to be the best fighter. I would like to fight in the biggest fights.
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It was bizarre and … kind of a fluke … I'm very lucky, it kind of fell into my lap, honestly. I was auditioning for a part for an American project that was filming in Australia, and a manager kind of saw my tape through that, and sort of contacted my Australian representative, and it kind of all just fell into place.
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I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!
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That's the beautiful thing about being an artist, is you can take risks and take chances and hopefully be secure enough to just keep going with it if you fall flat on your face.
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Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.
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You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
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Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.
