Martin O'Malley Quotes
The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
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Whether a president can truly improve, or damage, an economy remains an open question.
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We are here today because we want to be responsible stewards of the surplus,
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While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11.
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The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
