Martin Yan Quotes
Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
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I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.
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Although all of us may not agree with that particular lifestyle for religious reasons, whatever the reason is, you still treat each other with respect.
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
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I never said I don't like gay people.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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I know I'm never going to be one of those size 2 actresses – that's just not me. But I do want to be the healthiest I can be, and a role model to women of all shapes and sizes.
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In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
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I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.
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I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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I don't know why I am not offered woman-oriented films. Films like 'Satrangee Re' went house-full at some centres, but I didn't have much to do in the film. Everyone came up to me and said that I looked pretty but nothing beyond that.
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Being exhausted is all part of the fun. I'm cool with it. I'm not going to wish that it would slow down.
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Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
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Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
