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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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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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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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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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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I don't think 'Freak Dance' is a parody; it's more reference than anything. People don't think of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' as a 'Frankenstein' parody. It's kind of like that.
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If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
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Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.
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So many people are campaigning, fighting, and even dying to make a statement in the name of humanity. These people have no voice that can be heard by many. I wish more celebrities would take the initiative to be that voice.
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Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.
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There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.
