Cliff Martinez Quotes
I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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Everyone works hard for each other, and if we're having an off day, everyone else is there to pick things up.
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When things are going good they just keep going good.
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Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.
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The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
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I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.
