Cliff Martinez Quotes

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

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• I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Different
  • Want
  • Me

• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Together
  • Christmas
  • Lovely

• We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Live
  • Law

• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Change

• I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Different
  • Words
  • Years

• Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Never

• Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Earth
  • Small
  • Ocean

• I hate interviews - but you have to do them.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • You
  • Hate
  • Interviews

• We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Need
  • Down
  • Slow

• My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Parents

• But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • People
  • Different
  • High

• I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Personality

• If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Sick
  • Connections
  • Electricity

• Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Know
  • Like
  • Playing

• I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Care
  • Thought

• I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • World
  • Society
  • Mistakes

• Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

  

  Bradley Chicho
  • Rock
  • Mountain
  • Solitude

• Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

  

  John Milius
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Proud
  • Influence
  • Ignore

• Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Service
  • Composers
  • Paycheck