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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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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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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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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I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
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There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.
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Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading... it's a very, very powerful tool.
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There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty of the people, call it what you will - a doge, an avoyer, an archon, a president, a consul, a syndic; this becomes at once an object of ambition and dispute, and, in time, of division, faction, sedition, and rebellion.
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You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry
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If I have to work hard or think hard or just copy somebody else that's doing it better - whatever it takes, I'm going to find that solution. That's the drive that keeps me going.
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People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
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I have revered Mandy Moore for so long, and I just love her, and she's just, like, a perfect human.
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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.
