Martin O'Malley Quotes
Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.
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I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
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I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.
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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
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I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
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I remember I had a boyfriend a long time ago who said, 'You need to change your name; you sound like a circus performer.'
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.
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We lived in just a studio apartment with just a room and a bed that came out of the wall, and my mom couldn't afford even a Happy Meal. We ate Top Ramen. I had no toys, and I had, like, two shirts, a pair of jeans, and that was it. But I had my mom to myself, and I remember it being the coolest period of time. I loved it. I really loved it.
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But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.
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Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.
