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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Yeah, I graduated with a 4.0… blood alcohol level.
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It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.
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How could man have such utter contempt for man? Because he had reached the point of contempt for God.
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Your life is not defined by the one place where you work.
