Martina McBride Quotes
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.
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I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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I always try to make each character my own.
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When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.
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And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.
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I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.
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When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.
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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.
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I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my god-damned friends, White, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor nights!
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'Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary,' murmured Psmith. (Earlier usage of the precise words 'Elementary, my dear Watson' has been found in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.)
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Ivy is of longevity.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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A silkworm was struggling out of the cocoon and an ignorant man saw it battling as if in pain, so he went and helped it to get free, but very soon after it fluttered and died. The other silkworms that struggled out without help suffered, but they came out into full life and beauty, with wings made strong for flight by their battle for fresh existence.
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The way you look is so dependent on the way you take care of yourself.
