Pedro Martinez Quotes
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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There are a lot of bad people out there.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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A good leader must be fair.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I wrote my senior essay on the Santa Fe Writer's Colony and my dissertation on sacred landscapes - the Grand Canyon, the Dakota Badlands. As a setting, I love the West. I just love that western landscape.
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Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.
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We are a great enough country to respect the Second Amendment rights of lawful gun owners and protect our children. And those things don't need to be in conflict.
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Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.
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I hope he loosens up. New York is his hometown, ... Just respect his family.
