A. Lee Martinez Quotes
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.
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I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!
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I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.
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It's just that I've always been a tomboy, so being thrown into the hot nerd category and the glam thing has been very interesting for me to swallow.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
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I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.
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Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.
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No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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Like anyone else, I enjoy my days off.
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We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that as well - the language of martial arts movie fighting. It's a different thing; it's a different kind of logic.
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I know that Cena has a lot of detractors, but I'm very proud of him. He's a good hero.
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The wisest man knows he know nothing.
