Mark Pontius Quotes
We were hitting these marks like getting the Grammy nominations and playing with the Beach Boys, but those were things we never thought in a million years we'd ever accomplish.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
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You never know what I'm gonna do.
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I want to challenge myself in new mediums; I want to leave myself open to different things.
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We were doing the Big Day Out festival. I went "Hello, Adelaide!" Matt turned round going, "We're in fucking Perth you dick." He was quite pissed off with me for the whole day.
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I grew up in a family where everybody had a good time and we were at the lake every weekend and going to the beach and living a good life. It's been the way we always lived, and my wife's the same way - enjoy every day and have fun.
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I try to never look back at how I dressed in the first few seasons of 'Laguna Beach' because it was pretty bad... head-to-toe bad.
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We were hitting these marks like getting the Grammy nominations and playing with the Beach Boys, but those were things we never thought in a million years we'd ever accomplish.
