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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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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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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Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
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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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The outcome of the Reformation was the victory, not of Luther's perception of grace in all its purity and costliness, but of the vigilant religious instinct of man for the place where grace is to be obtained at the cheapest price.
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The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.
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I met this amazing person, and we realized we had very similar views on how we wanted to live our lives. It’s happened quickly, with so many children. Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of them. He couldn’t stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time.
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In terms of being able to renew my nation, to be able to be able to bring back a devastated country, to restore hope to our people, to lift women and to give them a new horizon, a new ambition and new dreams, in respect of all of that, I think we've accomplished it, and I feel very good about that.
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I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.
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There are lesser people not for what they are, but for why they are.
