Eugene J. Martin Quotes
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
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I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.
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I'm not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me. And I'm not interested in isolating myself. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.
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When Trump's cronies are the people attacking you, you know you've done something right.
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I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.
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To a large extent, we're working hard to fulfill the consumer demand for Subway sandwiches.
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A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.
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Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.
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I haven't dunked since Bill Clinton was in office, so I'm just happy for anyone who can do so without a trampoline.
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I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.
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Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.
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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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I don't think I can ever escape from music.
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You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.
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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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Truth rides best In that which looks ridiculous.
