Eugene J. Martin Quotes
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
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It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.
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When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.
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If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn't be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can't.
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No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.
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While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.
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There are lesser people not for what they are, but for why they are.
