Martha Gellhorn Quotes
What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
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As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.
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At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.
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Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
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The density of space junk peaks around 620 miles up, in the middle of so-called low-Earth orbit. That's bad, because many weather, scientific, and reconnaissance satellites circle in various low-Earth orbits.
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I don't believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. They will come from islands within those organizations, islands of people with integrity who want to do something.
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I don't have a nickname. But, hey, they can call me what they want - The Silent Assassin, The Underground King. In Japan, they call me American Knuckle Star. Call me what you want.
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Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.
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Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.
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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?
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What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
