Roland Martin Quotes
I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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I am a just man.
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
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The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.
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I grew up in Midtown Manhattan.
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Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.
