A. Lee Martinez Quotes
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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I'm an exercise and yoga junkie and I feel good.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
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A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.
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I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sing in a jazz bar and to just make it to pay for the rent.' And I'm like, 'Cool... That's not what I wanna do. I want as many people as possible to go to my concert.'
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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The only thing you ever have is now.
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You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
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I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.
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Meetings are the linchpin of everything. If someone says you have an hour to investigate a company, I wouldn't look at the balance sheet. I'd watch their executive team in a meeting for an hour. If they are clear and focused and have the board on the edge of their seats, I'd say this is a good company worth investing in.
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Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.
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You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.
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If the refugees return to Israel – Israel will cease to exist.
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One of her instructors in fashion had given her to understand that curls were not the thing. 'They'll always pass muster,' Miss Dunstable had replied, 'when they are done up with bank notes.'
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I want his children to know: wasn't anything strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with.
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There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
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One day he told me that he’d spent his adulthood trying to let go of his past, and he remarked how ironic it was that he had to get closer to it in order to let it go.
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You get a timeless cool card in New York.
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I think once you start as an announcer, you have to decide what kind of approach you're going to have. I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine. I think you just have to fit whatever kind of personality you have, and I think my nature was to be more down the middle and that's the way I conducted the broadcasts.
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Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.