Martin David Robinson (Marty Robbins) Quotes
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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A free and open Internet is essential to our democracy, economy, and modern way of life.
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And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.
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Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception.
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We are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech.
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Talent is being able to please people.
