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.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Girl
  • Fighting
  • Little

• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Christian
  • Spirit
  • Reaction

• The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Church
  • Catholic
  • Colonial

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Cutting

• As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • United States
  • Israel
  • Relations

• 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.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Women
  • Interesting

• You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Reality
  • Blind
  • Patriotism

• 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.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Support
  • Wall
  • New

• 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.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Family
  • Soul

• 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.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • Generation
  • Listen

• As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Long
  • Family
  • Money

• In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Life
  • Relationships

• 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.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Why
  • Change
  • Focus

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Art

• I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Myself

• I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Never
  • Down
  • Phone

• I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Adventure
  • Down
  • Turn

• I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 o'clock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 o'clock.

  

  Dieter Rams
  • Up
  • Bird

• I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

  

  Joe Manganiello
  • Up
  • Book

• The most pressing ethical question is to make sure that everything you do from a scientific standpoint is done for the ultimate good and positive issue for the people that you're caring about.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • People
  • Writing
  • Done

• Who would be such a fool as to make advances to his reader, advances which might end in rejection or, worse still, in acceptance?

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Fool
  • Acceptance
  • Rejection

• 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.

  

  Martin Yan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Done