Martin Yan Quotes
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
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If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.
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Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
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We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.
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Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
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When Kuwait was attacked by Saddam Hussein, all the wealthy Kuwaitis ran to Paris. They didn’t just rent suites-they took up whole buildings, entire hotels. They lived like kings while their country was occupied. Who did they turn to for help? Who else? Uncle Sucker. That’s us.
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My dad was Superman to me, and in my mind he always will be.
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Tell the truth.
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God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.
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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
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Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.
