Martin Shkreli Quotes
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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I believe in honesty and integrity, having a belief system that you've thought through and then stick to. I believe in being creative and contributing, and I believe in taking a stand against injustice that you encounter in everyday life and not being idle in that respect.
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I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
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My parents are supportive of anything I want to do, as long as it's not bad.
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In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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Once my pilot and I push and jump into the sled, I hold on for dear life in the back while she skillfully and hopefully quickly navigates the two of us down a mile of icy, often bumpy, sharp right and left turns. I then pull the brakes at the end.
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One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
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Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.
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You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking.
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You must put fear out of your mind. Confront it with the belief that the past is over with, that a new life lies ahead.
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You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.
