Chris Martin Quotes
I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting.
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Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.
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Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
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Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.
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Look at timber prices in the late '90s, at around $50. If you count the true damage of cutting down forests, the resultant flooding, insurance claims, and so on, then the timber price should have been $100.
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Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.
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I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.
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A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
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I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.
