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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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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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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When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.
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I think it's a great thing to support fashion and support designers.
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It's troubling that by eliminating weekend voting hours, the state of Ohio specifically banned a popular voting time of choice for minorities. In Cuyahoga County, which I represent, 56 percent of weekend voters in 2008 were African American while adult African Americans comprise 28 percent of the county population.
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I enjoy being out; I like being around people, but at a certain point in time, I kind of run out of charming, and I'm ready to go home, and I'm very comfortable alone.
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Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.
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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.
