Andrea Martin Quotes
But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.
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When people first started watching UFC, it seemed like a no-holds barred event... early on it looked like all the fighters were crazy. Actually, there are a lot of techniques, and the reality shows have let people see the fighters behind the scenes.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.
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Sometimes I implant thoughts, sometimes I extract thoughts, but I don't like to explain it too much. It's based on science, deduction, and reasoning - it's a bit like what 'Sherlock' does, except that's a dramatised version. I look at every clue around me.
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I was a little biker girl. I thought it was cool; everyone else thought it was really weird. The other little girls were all in these pretty dresses, and my mum bought me this black, studded leather jacket, which I loved.
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My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.
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But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.
