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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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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My music sounds different because the techniques are archaic, seeing as most people only record digitally.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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If you open up your eyes and imagine. Expand your horizon with rhyming and rapping. Quit rapping and rhyming bout cocaine supplying. And clapping is anyone out there or are yall all absent?
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You do something you're really quite proud of, and the public doesn't like it. Then you do something that perhaps you're not at all happy with and the public loves it. And that's the moment of truth, because it's the audience that's the final judge.
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Candidates are up one day, down the other. Candidates' fortunes turn on a dime. They can be determined by a good or bad debate performance.
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When you have a good stock, you can make a good soup.
