Martin Naughton Quotes
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
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A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
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I don't give a damn about the money. I earn my living well enough.
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There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.
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It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.
