Martha Gellhorn Quotes
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For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.
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We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority in all fields over all schools of thought and theories.
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For the devil had long ago taken a shine to Tert Card, filled him like a cream horn with itch and irritation. His middle initial was X. Face like cottage cheese clawed with a fork.
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.
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In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still working. They just keep doing it.
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I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?
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The subject matter of the show, 'Cabaret,' was more than risky. And the emcee I would be playing didn't have a single line of dialogue. Still, it was full of possibilities, and it was mine.
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It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses.
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I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.
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History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
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I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.
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However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.
