Martin Short Quotes
You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.
Quotes to Explore
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I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.
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I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.
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John Boehner is a friend.
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In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.
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I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.
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There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.
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My time at Komen has been well publicized and scrutinized, especially my departure over the funding of Planned Parenthood.
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As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling it as an intervention for humans, even though there may not be evidence it works.
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
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At some point, Dekteon saw, his own world had come close to such a religion, where women ruled and men died-but the road had taken a different turning. Now the hints of the ancient mystery remained only in songs. It was the men who were the masters. Maybe not for the better, and not for the worse, either. But all this was unimportant.
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By the mid-’90s, the anger at men had become so palpable that even sedate publications like The Economist were characterizing women’s vs. men’s workload as 'A woman’s work is never done; a man is drunk from sun to sun.'
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All knowledge is to some extent interpreted.
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My father was in the coal and heating business, and he wanted me to take over his business, and I resented every moment of it. So I would never force my kids to do what I do.
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I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.
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At the end of the day, we are so many digits in the machine. The point is – are these digits stronger than the competitors' digits?
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You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
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The reason prescription drugs are so important at the state level is because they're eating up the Medicaid budget.
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You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.
