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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In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.
Charles Revson
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To give the monopoly of the home-market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture, is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, and must, in almost all cases, be either a useless or a hurtful regulation.
Adam Smith
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
Carl Andre
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In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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I hope that I have gained the reputation of being someone that would do anything. I think that that's an admirable reputation to have if you're an actor.
Joe Lo Truglio
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I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.
Roland Martin
