Martha Kelly Quotes
From the time I was 18, I knew I wanted to be a comedian, but I was just scared to try it. And first I thought, 'Well, I should go to college and get a degree.' That didn't pan out.
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Justice is revenge.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
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From the time I was 18, I knew I wanted to be a comedian, but I was just scared to try it. And first I thought, 'Well, I should go to college and get a degree.' That didn't pan out.
