Martine Syms Quotes
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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I ran for office originally as part of this Tea Party Movement because we were upset with Republicans who've doubled the debt. We were upset with Republicans that bailed out the banks.
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For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.
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The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.
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Les gens qui n'eurent point de faiblesses sont terribles; on n'a point de prise sur eux.
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To me, the machinima artform has essentially evolved now into the Let's Play streaming world. That's what it is: it's people performing and creating art using video games. It's just more personality-driven rather than story-driven these days.
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Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
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If we are not honest, we are not going to be able to forge unity.
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Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
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Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
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I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
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When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.
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It's important to accept your body for what God gave you.
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I have so many choices in America; it's home to so many good things. I'm smart enough to enjoy all the good things that are offered.
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I haven't played a full round of golf yet, but I did make two pars my first time out on a golf course.
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I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
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And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
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So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.
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Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.
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It makes no sense to say that death is the goal of life, but what else is there to say?
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'
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It's very comforting to feel myself getting stronger.
