Martin David Robinson (Marty Robbins) Quotes
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.
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There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?
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Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
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Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.
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I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.
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We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.
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Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.
