Chris Martin Quotes
I've had tinnitus for about 10 years, but since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse. Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem. I wish I'd thought about it earlier.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
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I am happy in Paris.
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When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
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It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.
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Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.
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I don't think you're weak," Jared said. "I want to guard you because you are important to me. Because you are - God, this is going to sound so stupid, I can never think of a way to say it - you are precious. I can never think of how to describe the value you have to me, because all the words for value suggest that you belong to me, and you don't.
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Her gaze was direct, full of a sadness so raw and crystallized that I could see the shape of it.
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I've had tinnitus for about 10 years, but since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse. Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem. I wish I'd thought about it earlier.
