Martin O'Malley Quotes
The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
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I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
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I'd love to be on scripted TV shows and movies, but not just one - I want to be in a lot of them! I'd also love to sing and possibly be on Broadway. I want to do it all.
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I'm very excited about taking over the reins on Vampirella. I've really been enjoying myself so far.
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It must be horrible having people scared to talk to you. But I think it's kinda cool that I don't really know anyone in that way.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.
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I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.
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When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
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My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'
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The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.
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I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.
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If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it further. Keep them always uncovered and in sight. Exceptions are like the rough brickwork of a growing building which tells that there is more to come and shows where the next construction is to be.
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Medicare's top officials said in 2006 that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims paid by the agency, keeping billions of dollars out of the hands of people trying to game the system.
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
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The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.
