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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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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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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I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.
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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.
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To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.
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People often say, 'Ah, ultimate fighting is so violent,' but it's rooted in martial arts. Martial arts incarnate respect. You can't walk into a dojo and say to your sensei, 'Hey, salut tabarnac!' After every one of my fights I go and shake the hand of my opponent. I don't need to hate the other fighter to fight him well. It's a sport.
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No one is any one thing.
