Martin Short Quotes
I'm totally aware of how lucky I am. I have health, family, children. I do work that gives me total joy and allows me to make a living, and maybe, if I'm lucky enough, I'll feel I've fulfilled a little bit of service to society because I brought other people some laughter.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.
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Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!
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In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
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If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.
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In Free, we managed ourselves, and it was too tough for us to handle all of what that entailed when we got to touring America.
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I'm totally aware of how lucky I am. I have health, family, children. I do work that gives me total joy and allows me to make a living, and maybe, if I'm lucky enough, I'll feel I've fulfilled a little bit of service to society because I brought other people some laughter.
