Charles Martinet (Charles Andre Martinet) Quotes
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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Nearly everything faith-related that I have done at Harvard has been followed by free food, from going to services at Harvard's Episcopal Chaplaincy to attending a day of interfaith discussion and dialogue hosted by the university chaplains in the fall.
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You know how country music stars get an extra 10 years on their life when they go to Branson? Like you're washed up, and you go to Branson, then you can last another 10 years. That's what bashing the media does.
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The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
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We have the tendency of over-legislation regarding women.
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I don't know what's best for other people.
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When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.
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I thought my second record was good, but it didn't have that smash hit we did on the first one that somehow found its way onto tons of formats of radio stations.
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Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.
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Before every performance I feel nervous.
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Changes your life, getting into the Hall of Fame. For the rest of my life, I'll be known as Hall of Famer George Kell.
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I was not worried at halftime at all. But then we come out and only score two points in the third quarter - you just can't win like that.
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There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.
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“I was a hoarder, a collector of facts that I stored in my brain for later use, not knowing what this use might be.
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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.
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I never worry that I'll die in my sleep, because I'm never asleep!
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When people told me that I couldn't do something, I wanted to always prove them wrong. That comes a lot from people always bullying me because of my size and not thinking that I could do anything to impact the world or inspire other people.
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It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.
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Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.
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Waaa Everybody's cheating but me!
