Roland Martin Quotes
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
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With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
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Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.
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I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.
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I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.
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Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
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Human reason is by nature architectonic.
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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.
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Modesto tamen et circumspecto iudicio de tantis viris pronuntiandum est, ne, quod plerisque accidit, damnent quae non intellegunt.
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My dad was very excited about me doing 'Laguna Beach,' and he thought it was a great opportunity. My mom, however, living in Chicago, was a little nervous. I mean she had some reservations about MTV. I think there was a point in my life where I wasn't even allowed to watch MTV!
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Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
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I was one of those dancers who they say wants to feel the floor through their pointe shoes. I would end up not wearing toe pads and that stuff. I would just wrap minimal amounts of paper towels around my toes.
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I guess, for me, the therapy is walking on stage, playing all of our songs, and walking out. That's probably my therapy. That's a good time.
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Your life is not defined by the one place where you work.
