Martin Yan Quotes
Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
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We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.
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Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film.
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Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
