Martin Short Quotes
I truly believe that when you're funny, you're blessed. Your whole life is kind of golden. I was happy, although it was not perfect happiness. There was illness and sadness and death.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.
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I really love learning and working long hours.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.
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My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I truly believe that when you're funny, you're blessed. Your whole life is kind of golden. I was happy, although it was not perfect happiness. There was illness and sadness and death.
