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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I am pleased with our offensive approach and our competitive at bats. If we play 27 outs we are going to give ourselves an opportunity.
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Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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People say they like my fashion-haul videos because it's like you've been shopping with your friends, and you look back over what you have bought.
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There are lesser people not for what they are, but for why they are.
