Martin Landau Quotes
If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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I grew up in New York.
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This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.
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The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.
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People always go, 'Damn, how you got all this happening at once?' I tell them it's the Chicago in me.
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If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.
