Martin Yan Quotes
Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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Political positions do not belong to the officeholder; they belong to the people that place us in office.
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I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.
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At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children.
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The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
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Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.
