Martin Short Quotes
I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.
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Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.
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I love to wear my own Jade Jagger ball gowns. I love their timeless elegance, of course with my own jewelry.
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Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.
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I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.
