Chris Martin Quotes
Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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The self really is an illusion-and realizing this is the basis of spiritual life.
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I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.
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Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.
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I like rock & roll, and I don't like much else.
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Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.
