Cliff Martinez Quotes
I'm not in a position in my career where I turn things down. I'm very easy. So the projects often dictate the direction you will go in. I welcome things that challenge me.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.
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Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.
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If there's a sustainable job that will create sustainable value, people will hire for it.
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I challenge any American family to think about what they would do if they were invaded by a hostile force. If tanks pulled up outside their house, and there were armed men inside, would they send their kids out? A lot of Americans would fight that to the end.
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I'm not in a position in my career where I turn things down. I'm very easy. So the projects often dictate the direction you will go in. I welcome things that challenge me.
