Martha Gellhorn Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn’t be able to see my feet.
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Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.
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Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.
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Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.
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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
