Eugene J. Martin Quotes
It’s past time that people get involved in thinking – now that the computers can take over the field of memory.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.
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We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
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I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.
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It's hard when something's bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It'd be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, 'Oh, God, what's going on?'
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Jane Austen is very amusing.
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I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'
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I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.
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I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.
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Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.
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I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction. I understand that the various collateral consequences of the court-martial conviction will stay on my record forever. I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the U.S.D.B. as the person I was born to be.
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I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'
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As I got a little older, I discovered Lori McKenna and Patty Griffin and found out how many other tools we have as songwriters, that there's storytelling and there's ear candy, and that there is a place where they meet, too, and both of those women are really good at doing that.
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I really, really don't think that, outside of maybe some pink wigs, [that] there's anything that separates me from every other woman in America.
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(I feel) a lot better, a lot better I got a really good corky right in the middle of my quad and staying up all Friday night and Saturday has definitely made it better.
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Things are a bit complicated. We have to change the team.
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When you think of a Vine video, it's like thinking about an experience you've had, which people can relate to.
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It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
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Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.
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It’s past time that people get involved in thinking – now that the computers can take over the field of memory.
