Martha Gellhorn Quotes
If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
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People always want to doubt you.
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Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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The next step is for the great teachers to arise, and for them to clearly understand the challenges ahead and mentor accordingly. Where most generations focus the education of their children on preparing to make a living or succeed financially, leadership generations are taught by parents who see a higher role for their children.
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The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools.
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Desperate is not a sexual preference.
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The problem that we have is thinking there's only one kind of feminist, and that she's politically correct and right on at all times, wears flat shoes, doesn't wear makeup, probably doesn't have sex, is very angry, wears dungarees, is a vegetarian.
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in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned.
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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
