Gail Z. Martin Quotes
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.
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It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
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When a government gives special tax treatment to a few companies, that makes it hard for anyone else to compete on equal terms.
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I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.
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I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
