Buck Martinez (John Albert) Quotes

There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.

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• For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.

  

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• Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.

  

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• We just here to do our job.

  

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• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

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• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

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• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  

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• I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

  

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• Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.

  

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• Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

  

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• I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.

  

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• Your role as a founder changes dramatically once your team hits 10, 20, 50, 100, and so on. Sometimes you forget how big you've grown and continue to act as if you're still 10 people.

  

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• The best way I could describe it at Notre Dame was that I was accepted as a member of the family.

  

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• I've always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.

  

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• I used to hate exposure situations. What is generally referred to as 'red carpet.'

  

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• Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

  

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• First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.

  

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• I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

  

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• I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!

  

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• The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

  

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• Here at home, for goodness's sakes, we have to finally pass a law prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in the United States of America.

  

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• There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.

  

  Buck Martinez
  • People
  • Temperature
  • Scoreboard