Chris Martin Quotes
I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work.
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I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.'
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I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
