Jesse L. Martin Quotes
You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of respect and attention I could give them, because I knew that they were coming at me from almost an equal level.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
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The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.
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People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.
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A lot of the shows relate to interrelationships and attitudes, again, always trying to do it within the context of a very entertaining show.
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You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of respect and attention I could give them, because I knew that they were coming at me from almost an equal level.
