Roland Martin Quotes
I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.
Roland Martin
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
M.I.A.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
Lara Stone
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
Ted Danson
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I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
Garry Wills
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Oscar Levant
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
Abraham Maslow
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I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
Victoria Pendleton
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Even when I had no money, I spent everything I had on clothes.
Natalie Cole
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What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.
Parker Stevenson
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
Frances McDormand
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Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.
Larry Fitzgerald
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You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.
Rafael Nadal
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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
Charles Reade
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I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.
Jerry Reed Hubbard
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Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.
Hamid Karzai
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Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance.
William Law
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I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.
Roland Martin
