Pedro Martinez Quotes
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why?
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I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.
