Martin O'Malley Quotes
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women.
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My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.
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I am not the first woman to multi-task. I am not the first woman to work and have a baby - there are many women who have done this before.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
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Typically, I don't get to unwind after a day at work.
