Angie Martinez Quotes

I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.

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• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Always
  • Difficult

• I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Old

• Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Justice
  • Growth

• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Like
  • Slavery
  • Secrets

• The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Family
  • Society

• My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Job
  • Ideas
  • Fair

• I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Up
  • Light
  • I Can

• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Grass

• I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Passion

• I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Fighting

• What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Prayer
  • Ignorance
  • August

• I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.

  

  Raekwon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• My interest in protein breakdown as a research problem began in l955 at about the time I joined the Biochemistry Department of Yale University. It was known that proteins break down intracellularly in the mature animal.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Animal

• The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Country
  • Running
  • Religious

• I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• 'Was the cow crossed?''No, your worship, it was an open cow.'

  

  A. P. Herbert

• At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea. Standing there on Freedom's shore. Waiting for the sun...

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Freedom
  • Waiting
  • Sun

• Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Suffering
  • Attitude

• Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Happiness
  • Making
  • Misery

• All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

  

  George Eliot
  • Journey
  • Moon
  • Stars

• I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like there's an extreme binary between femininity and masculinity in the Gulf. From a young age, I knew I didn't want to be part of it. Gender is a huge gray area, and the problem with defined roles is that they cover up undefined ones.

  

  Ayshay
  • Problem
  • Roles
  • Gender

• I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.

  

  Angie Martinez