Martin Short Quotes
All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done.
Quotes to Explore
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.
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Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.
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One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.
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All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done.
