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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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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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 always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.
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Manners are really very important to me.
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I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.
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What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.
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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.
