Martin Short Quotes
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
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Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
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I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.
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As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
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Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done - and was about to do.
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As the man, so his God
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I felt that the murderer was in the room. Sitting with us - listening. one of us
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They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.
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We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.
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I think screenplay is hard. I've tried that, and it felt really difficult; like, all the stuff I think I'm good at, like description and internal experience and memory, you can't do that - or, at least, I couldn't figure out a way.
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Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.
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No one is any one thing.