Martin Amis Quotes
I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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We care about margins.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
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When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.
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I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.
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I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.
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Se aprende a no necesitar, necesitando.
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We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.
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'Parental Guidance' combines comedy and pathos in the best way.
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If we can be the best people we are as individuals, then that's the way to change the world.
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In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.
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Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
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I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited. Like, if you think you're going to make a difference or change anything, you're on pretty dangerous thin ice.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.
