Martha Gellhorn Quotes
the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.
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It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.
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We are not made for life at all, old horse. It is made for us. We live it. We leave it.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.
