Martha Gellhorn Quotes
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I'm a television junkie.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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Like every other 13-year-old in America, she's in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, who I think is an androgynous wimp. You know what he does throughout the whole movie Titanic? He smokes.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I had a mustache when I was 13.
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If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
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You can't change the world; you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things.
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Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.
