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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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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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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Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available.
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It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.
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Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.
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A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.
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I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.
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Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.
