A. Lee Martinez Quotes
In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
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Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
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Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.
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They prevented men from doing anything. But they did nothing themselves. They did not rule, they only blighted.
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First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.
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In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
