Antonio Garcia Martinez Quotes
At the Facebook engineering level are some of the smartest people I've ever worked with.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
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When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square. Destroys its power.
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I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.
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Gov. Romney said he would veto the Dream Act. Gov. Romney essentially said the 11 million people ought to just go home, they ought to self-deport. President Romney, if he is elected, is not going to fix our immigration system.
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Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. I think it's true for women, and I think it's true for people of color. It's historic, and it's unfortunate and has somehow become part of our DNA. But that time has passed.
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How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?
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At the Facebook engineering level are some of the smartest people I've ever worked with.
