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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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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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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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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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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'What matters,' Sister Vigilante says, 'is, people need a monster they can believe in.' A true horrible enemy. A demon to define themselves against. Otherwise, it's just us versus us.
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I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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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.
