Martin Goldsmith Quotes
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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Obama seems like he tries to talk everyone into what he believes - and that's part of why we elected him, because he's a calm, reasonable guy - but behind that, there has to be some fight. You have to be able to take a few punches and throw a few punches.
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The fact that I live in New York, a city that thrives on accessibility, might explain why I was slow to grasp the appeal of Alexa. Here we have bodegas on every corner, most open 24 hours, in case you need to pick up a roll of toilet paper or a bottle of hot sauce in the middle of the night.
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I've always liked new writing.
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I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.
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That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.
