Martin Lewis Perl Quotes
They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.
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I've never been a partier.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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God does arithmetic.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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Fascism is very much a mob movement.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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Landmines are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill - for decades.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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In 200 years will people remember us as traitors or heros? That is the question we must ask.
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Embrace a diversity of ideas. Embrace the fact that you can disagree with people and not be disagreeable. Embrace the fact that you can find common ground - if you disagree on nine out of 10 things, but can find common ground on that 10th, maybe you can make progress. If you can find common ground, you can accomplish great things.
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.
