Wednesday Martin (Wendy Martin) Quotes

If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a good way to do it. And if you're wealthy, you can do it with a very expensive It bag, or whether it's Vuitton or Valentino at the moment, and it's a way to signal to one another, We're part of this tribe.

Wednesday Martin

• Moments
• Identity
• Wealthy
• Conformity
• Kinship

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• The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Family
  • Words

• Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Children
  • Power
  • Control

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Birds
  • Racing

• I am just one human being.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Human
  • Human being

• Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Live
  • Choose
  • Homosexuality

• I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Music
  • Me
  • Decisions

• My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Girl
  • Heaven
  • Angel

• Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Marxism
  • Opium

• NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Choose
  • Clothes

• They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• People know me for my love of food, but I have so much more I want to share. Our show's going to be all about taking a bigger bite out of life. I want people to see themselves in this show because life is full of messes and successes, and getting there is half the fun.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• Put your shoulder to the wheel.

  

  Aesop

• From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Distance

• I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor Karen Berger. She told me, 'There's no masturbation in the DC Universe.' To which my reaction was, 'Well that explains a lot about the DC Universe.'

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Universe
  • Masturbation

• A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • Work
  • Money
  • Character

• Somehow, we have to realize that what we watch and what we listen to not only often reflects our most violent tendencies but cultivates more violence.

  

  Bernice King
  • Violence

• Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Good

• I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Family

• When it comes to achieving your dreams, the excuse "I don't know where to start" is no longer valid. Between the countless self-help books available on Amazon.com and the limitless supply of free articles found through Google, everything you need is just a click away. It's time you go figure it out!

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Time
  • Book
  • Help

• The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Change
  • Attitude
  • Identity

• Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Live
  • Moments
  • Violence

• New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • People
  • Trying
  • Community

• If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a good way to do it. And if you're wealthy, you can do it with a very expensive It bag, or whether it's Vuitton or Valentino at the moment, and it's a way to signal to one another, We're part of this tribe.

  

  Wednesday Martin
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