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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Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and afflictions as well as all kinds of happiness of man, whether they concern one individual or a community, are distributed according to justice; they are the result of strict judgement that admits no wrong whatever.
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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Kate Middleton is intelligent, good looking, kind, and fun, and she is remarkably normal.
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When you have a good stock, you can make a good soup.
