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.

Cliff Martinez

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As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

Jodie Foster

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In early 2011, I had the opportunity to meet and spend significant time with Alfred Lin, a partner at Sequoia Capital and co-founder of Zappos.

Jennifer Hyman

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Oil is largely our energy past, and Keystone does little to respond to the actual challenges and opportunities before us.

John Delaney

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I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

John Malkovich

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Christians need jobs just like anybody else, but the years you spend as an undergraduate are like everything else in your life. They're not yours to do with as you please. They're Christ's.

Stanley Hauerwas

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Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

Roger McGuinn

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Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.

Molly Ivins

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I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.

Lou Reed

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The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.

Jared Polis

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If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem.

Jorge Bucay

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As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist.

Jon Krakauer

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My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.

Derek Walcott

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