Pedro Martinez Quotes
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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You're only as good as your weakest link in the ecosystem of sound, of audio.
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Cats will outsmart dogs every time.
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I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
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I like the challenge. I do not like the attention.
