J. R. Martinez Quotes
I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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I don't know about other people, but I love to work.
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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Forgive people so that Allah may forgive you.
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When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore wrong. We feel that even weak and erring Man would shrink from such an act. And we cannot conceive of God as acting on a lower standard of right and wrong.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
