Cliff Martinez Quotes

I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.

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• All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Giving
  • Mad
  • Name

• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Live
  • Done
  • Day

• I love my wife, I love my kids.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Wife

• Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Earth

• I was looking at my Instagram, and someone said to me, 'Who manages your Instagram?' I would never let anyone manage my Instagram! I enjoy it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Me
  • Enjoy
  • Looking

• Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Ego
  • Self
  • Autobiography

• I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Like

• I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Home
  • Play
  • Present

• The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Real
  • Art
  • Beauty

• I moved to Paris for two years, then to London, then New York in 2002. In that time, I also lived in Japan, Italy, Germany - I've been a bit of a gypsy.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Time
  • New York
  • Paris

• I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Think
  • Same

• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Today
  • Understanding

• I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Way
  • Movies
  • Scared

• I love reading books that can break my heart.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Books

• My witness is the empty sky.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Sky
  • Empty
  • Witness

• Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Help
  • Political
  • Government

• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time, I'm having a ball.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Ball
  • Good Time
  • Don't Stop

• Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Country
  • Growing
  • Decisions

• We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Change
  • Experiences
  • Legitimacy

• Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Knows
  • Ignorance
  • Empathy

• I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Person
  • Bands
  • Scenes