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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If I am training on a holiday, most likely nobody else is - and that gives me the edge. If I'm supposed to run for 20 minutes and I get back and it's only been 19:34, I'm going to jog in a circle for 26 more seconds. I'm never going to cut it short.
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My door is open.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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I believe the main solution referring to the nuclear issue is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
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I have been much blessed.
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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.
