Martin McDonagh Quotes
I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
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I spend a lot of time wondering how to best support the people that I love, because I think sometimes that means getting out of the way. When should I leave them alone to have their own life?
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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We are an immigrant nation.
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I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.
