Chris Martin Quotes
I like it short but it's getting farther and farther back, so it's growing long
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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Life is a journey, it can take you anywhere you choose to go
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Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.
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My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.
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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
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I like it short but it's getting farther and farther back, so it's growing long
