Mary Martin Quotes
I can't tell you the joy I felt in flying in that show … I loved it so. The freedom of spirit that was Peter Pan was suddenly there for me. I discovered I was happier in the air than on the ground.
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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Every villain needs her story told.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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Our nation is today a powerful nation.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
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After being married, hearing 'You're hot!' from a total stranger means a hundred times more than hearing it from your husband.
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A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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I can't tell you the joy I felt in flying in that show … I loved it so. The freedom of spirit that was Peter Pan was suddenly there for me. I discovered I was happier in the air than on the ground.
