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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I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, 'Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?'
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Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.
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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.
