Martin O'Malley Quotes
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.
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The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.
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The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.
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Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
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There is a month, a year, there is a time In which majesty is a mirror of the self: I have not but I am and as I am, I am.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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My coaches are always my friends. I've always had a coach a year of my life and they're really important part of being a better human for me.
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If my Catholic boyfriend and I ever have a kid, we'll just be honest with it. We'll say that Mommy is one of God's chosen people, and Daddy believes that Jesus is magic!
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Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives? How hard can it be to change gears and say, 'You know what? Instead of inventing and telling stories, I’m going to make my life a more interesting story.' (p. 177)
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I had a choice. I could become an economist & managing director. I choose to do something else. I would have become much, much richer than I am. I choose to not do that. It's that simple.
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When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."
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If we want better results, we have to make better choices.
