Jesse L. Martin Quotes

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

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• If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • You
  • Stability

• I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Family
  • Support
  • Doing

• I'm such a happy, easygoing person.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Easygoing

• Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • History
  • Destiny

• I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Children
  • Think
  • Fat

• It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Truth
  • Me

• I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Ready

• For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Long
  • Book
  • Favorite

• Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • Die
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Religious
  • Religion

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Business
  • American
  • Help

• I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Think
  • Relationship
  • Moments

• If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Today
  • Moving

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Bad
  • Lose
  • Election

• Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Life
  • Time
  • Today

• The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

  

  Philippe Falardeau

• The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

  

  Lincoln Steffens
  • Honor

• All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Up
  • Live
  • Food

• Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Smart
  • Stubborn

• If I can drive down the road in my car and listen to XM satellite, and when a song gets beamed into my car, it can tell me who wrote the song and what the damn lyrics are, why, when you broadcast a digital signal of a film, can't it speak to your television to set up a list of settings to show the film in the way that it was meant to be shown?

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Up
  • Why
  • Song

• As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

  

  Jesse L. Martin
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