Jesse L. Martin Quotes
Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking. Whatever it is, it'll pass. Time doesn't go backward. That's the one real blessing. It happened; it does you no good to worry. Keep it movin'.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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I got through college.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
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Real is the club of my heart, and I promised my grandfather that I would play there one day. I hope that it will happen.
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I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who were good for nothing.
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Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking. Whatever it is, it'll pass. Time doesn't go backward. That's the one real blessing. It happened; it does you no good to worry. Keep it movin'.
