Martha Plimpton Quotes
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I just look at what's going on in the world.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
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I usually build my collections on colors and on staples, so when you buy pieces, you are really adding to your wardrobe, and you're getting a new color palette to play with. The clothes are timeless and modern at the same time.
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
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Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.
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I am inclined to believe that few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise, but by the help of those they provoke.
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I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.
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‘You’re one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It’s a great gift.’
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I agree that you might clone some people who would look amazingly like their parental cell donors, but the odds are that they’d be almost as different as you or me, and certainly more different than any of today’s identical twins.
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If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.
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My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school.
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Pablo Picasso would paint a painting and hang it on the wall, and you would go and see the painting exactly how he wanted it to be made. But if you have an idea for a TV show, for example, you're beholden to studios to produce it and distributors to distribute it.
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I'm glad I was never an heiress.
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Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN security council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.
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Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.
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I love dogs because they're so adaptable.
