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 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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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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If I'm thinking about a particular injury, then I'm already a step behind. If I'm so gun shy in the pocket and not worried about the receivers that are open down field, something's going to happen that's not going to get the job done. So my main focus is having confidence in myself knowing that I'm able to be myself when I'm out there.
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According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.
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East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.
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Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
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The trick in life is to hang out until the miracles come.
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And part of growin’ up is learnin’ to see the world through other men’s eyes.
