Martine Syms Quotes
I had a studio visitor ask me when a piece was complete, and afterward, I realized I was kind of annoyed by the question. I wrote down to myself, 'Nothing's ever finished' as an operating value.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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I always see guys get all, like, flexed on other people, trying to show off that they are tough, and it is just, like, no girl really likes that.
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My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.
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It's interesting because with a lot of people who I've met in comedy, it seems not to matter what your background is. In terms of formal schooling - I feel like that's a nineteenth century term - but in terms of where you went to high school or college, or wherever, all that really is irrelevant, I have found, in comedy.
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Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.
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The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.
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I had a studio visitor ask me when a piece was complete, and afterward, I realized I was kind of annoyed by the question. I wrote down to myself, 'Nothing's ever finished' as an operating value.
