Martin Landau Quotes
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.
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I think probably the majority of political actions don't go the way people are going to go. Just because there were unexpected consequences and maybe not the resolution people would have liked to have been seen doesn't mean it was less valid of an action.
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Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.
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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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I saw this on CNN a few days ago. In New York these cops freaked out. They shot at this guy like 15 times 'cause they said they thought he had a a grenade. HE WAS EATING A PEAR! How do you fuck that up?! Unless he was eating it like 'AHHHHHH! *throws pear* THAT'S A DELICIOUS PEAR!!!'
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Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.
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N.B. this book and pensées not important and the temptation to mistake them for Creation must be resisted.
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All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
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(Kirk Gibson's World Series-game-winning home run, October 15, 1988, transcribed from mlb.com archives excising comments by color commentator Joe Garagiola)
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Un désespoir paisible, sans convulsions de colère et sans reproches au ciel est la sagesse même.
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Impetus is a power of the mover applied in a movable thing which causes the movable thing to move after it is separated from its mover.
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But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
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He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.
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As a young actor, I was working much more readily and being offered more things.
