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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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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The Soviet scheme of compulsory labor is being applied on such a broad scale and is so boldly presented as a ‘proletarian’ scheme that it constitutes the gravest danger that has confronted labor for centuries.
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When you first open Niall [Horan]'s wallet, the first thing you see is a picture of Justin Bieber and a picture of us.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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There's no point in getting too worried about things, because life is too short.
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I use all kinds of resources for researching my novels. I'm not shy about calling up experts and asking questions, or emailing, or buying textbooks and references. The Internet is always a brilliant way to find instant facts, but it's not a great way to really understand your subjects in depth without a lot of work.
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His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain; His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars, "Rest, rest, and rest again.
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Your life is not defined by the one place where you work.
