Darwin D. Martin Quotes
A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
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Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.
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Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
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When I put out 'Toot It and Boot It,' did anything sound like that?
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Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.
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There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.
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I'm not opposed to doing a fashion line, but I want to make sure it's the right thing and make sure its something people actually want instead of putting out a bunch of stuff that's already been done.
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Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.
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If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.
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She was a very devout teacher. There was a fanaticism about her in terms of the quality of a performance she sought from her students, and about how they thought about the music they played.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.
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A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.
