Valerie Martin Quotes
We long for a life we never had but of which we seem to have a clear memory; a life in wich there is no longing.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score.
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American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.
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The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.
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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.
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I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and stories about space aliens. It's baffling. When I say I want to see a more positive side of the church, all I'm saying is I want to get past these headlines that talk about aliens and Tom Cruise jumping on a sofa.
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With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind can live in liberty…We must accept these things with passion. It means that we must live imaginatively.
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We long for a life we never had but of which we seem to have a clear memory; a life in wich there is no longing.
