Jesse L. Martin Quotes

As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic.

Jesse L. Martin

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• It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Economy
  • Laws
  • Legal

• It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Read
  • Little

• I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
  • Me
  • Eyes

• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Best
  • Artist
  • End

• I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Like
  • Little
  • Gymnast

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • True
  • Career

• For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Art
  • Hope
  • Lost

• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Boy

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Long
  • History
  • Lies

• My brother is really, really slow.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Brother
  • Really
  • Slow

• Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Character
  • Day

• If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley... It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Food

• I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Long
  • Love
  • Passion

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• I knew that the UFC and that mixed martial arts in general was going to prosper because I was extremely selfish and cocky, and I thought: 'Hey, if I like it, everyone's gonna like it.' Well, it came to fruition, and I chose a character that was not a far departure from myself at all.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Character
  • Selfish
  • Cocky

• We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Country
  • Together
  • Think

• Speak your name And I'll feel a thrill. You said I do, And I said I will.I tell you that I'll stay true, And give you just a little time. Wait on me baby, I want you to be all mine. I just get so blue.Since you've been gone, baby (why'd you do it? why'd you have to do it?)

  

  Aretha Franklin
  • Time
  • Why
  • True

• Someone once said that Nirvana attracted everybody that had ever been through a broken home... my niche is a lot more specific: It's a lot of females, and a lot of gay guys, and a few advanced and evolved heterosexual men-not many, but there's a few out there.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Men
  • Home
  • Gay

• I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

  

  Peter Max
  • Canvas

• As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic.

  

  Jesse L. Martin
  • Great
  • Country
  • Family