Martin Short Quotes
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.Martin Short
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
Carl Paladino -
The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
Felicity Kendal -
I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti -
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley -
There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
Iris Chang
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I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
Hari Kondabolu -
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
Hans Haacke -
Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.
Barry Bonds -
Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
Valerie Plame -
You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
Larry Dixon
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
Waris Dirie -
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
Abdoulaye Wade -
I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
Rachel Kushner -
I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
Gary Calamar -
I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
Hamid Karzai -
The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating.
Jeffrey Kluger -
I would say that my whole career is effectively trying to be a storyteller within the context of financial news.
Andrew Ross Sorkin -
That's the bulk of my lyrical output - being confused and trying to find answers to my confusion.
James Edward Olliges Jr. -
What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
Ferdinand Marcos -
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
Martin Short