Martin Yan Quotes
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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I would love to do some theater.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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Yes mam. I'm sorry you've had such troubles. Mm-hmm. Sorry. Don’t need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.
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Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!
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People say, 'Oh you're so good, and you're so young!' It's like, 'No. I'm good. Period!'
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People often say that if you have to work hard at a marriage, then it's not naturally good, but I think that's totally wrong.
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When you have a good stock, you can make a good soup.
