Martin O'Malley Quotes
We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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I loved 'Paranormal Activity.' It was one of my favorites before. It was a tradition; my friends and I went every year.
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My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible. And then they had to come to Brussels, to run away from Poland, because there was too much anti-Semitism. They lost everything they had.
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We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.
