A. Lee Martinez Quotes
Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
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I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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You can't give up. If you set yourself a target, you've got to keep on until you achieve it. It's a matter of having pride in yourself.
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The advent of so much dribbling has created a different kind of player, and it starts at a very early age. We have so many gifted ball handlers. Everything is pick-and-roll. Unless he's a catch-and-shoot guy, a player is going to put it on the floor and attack. Kevin Durant is a wonderful ball handler.
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I know that New York is big - there are huge buildings - but, in fact, it's quite small and contained... I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing, for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I've been writing, not a lot, but I'm inspired every day.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
