Martine Syms Quotes
Pop culture or advertising doesn't work perfectly. No one is watching and mindlessly accepting every part of the narrative or ideology.

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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I like being unconventional.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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The most important asset you need to protect in order to manage the demands of a job or an investment portfolio is your production of energy. And, just like with money, if you do a great job managing your energy, you'll get a great return.
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In general, global economic growth supports Russian economy.
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Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
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One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.
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I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.
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Pop culture or advertising doesn't work perfectly. No one is watching and mindlessly accepting every part of the narrative or ideology.