Martin Short Quotes
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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People trash talk me.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working.
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It's dangerous to be anybody popular.
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I'd never seen anything like it in my life. Someone so blatantly challenging the ideas of race and gender and sexuality. In a way, it was comparable to David Bowie, except that Prince brought that to the black community.
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And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
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Desire is important.
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Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.
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One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
