William Martin Quotes
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.
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The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment.
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The scientific consensus is that climate change is real, urgent, and caused by humans. This science should be both supported and understood by anyone who hopes to lead NASA, one of our nation's top science agencies.
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The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down.
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And part of growin’ up is learnin’ to see the world through other men’s eyes.
