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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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.
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Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.
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Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical attitude. Buddha himself made this clear to his followers. He said you should not accept those things I taught out of respect for me, but rather through investigation by yourself.
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People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
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Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.
