Strother Martin quotes

“Some are born to fail. Others have it thrust upon them.”
-- Strother Martin

Source : "Fictional character: Poe". "Hard Times", www.imdb.com. 1975.

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“What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach.”
-- Strother Martin

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“Morons. I've got morons on my team.”
-- Strother Martin

Source : "Fictional character: Percy Garris". "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", www.imdb.com. September 23, 1969.

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“Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave their marks on one's face and bearing. A few lines on the face and a few gray hairs coupled with the idiosyncrasies an actor adopts throughout life help out round out the actor's personality. So far as I'm concerned, the older a character actor gets, the firmer his position is.”
-- Strother Martin

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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“What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach.”
-- Strother Martin

Source : "Fictional character: Captain". "Cool Hand Luke", 1967.

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“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.”

“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”

“The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.”

Source : "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 508), 1977.

“I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.”

“When all else fails, read the instructions.”

“Or maybe I’d lost my soul already. I doubted God let someone like me keep any gift from him. It was highly likely I’d been born without one.”

“Poets are born, not paid.”

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1908). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom”

“I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.”

“Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.”

Source : "An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay". techland.time.com. April 02, 2013.