Martin Freeman Quotes
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I go around the country sharing my story. I aim to dare other people to go deep into their own stories and hope to inspire them to think about their own world and experiences.
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Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.
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What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.
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My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately.
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He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.
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Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into.
