Cartier Martin (Cartier Alexander Martin) Quotes
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There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
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When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.
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God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.
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I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.
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When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.
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Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.
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They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of circumstance, and the parts never fit back quite right and the life you live is a stolen one. You don't deserve to walk among the living, and you know it.
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Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
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If Turkey is ready, we must begin talks. And if Croatia is ready, there too. But we can't have a quid pro quo with the fate of these countries' populations.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
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For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
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Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.
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You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.
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I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs.
