Marc Platt Quotes
It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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And that's the way it is.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.
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Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It's when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately avoid violence and adopt methods to solve the problem through peaceful means. That is real peace.
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The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.
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The songwriting style, to me, is superior... there was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity.
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An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
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It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.
