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Martin Short -"No one is any one thing." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and let's dive into today's
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  quote of the day. Today's quote comes from Martin
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  Short, Canadian actor, comedian, writer, Tony Award winner and
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  one of the most beloved entertainers of the last five
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  decades. A man who the world knows for
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  making people laugh, and a man who has lived a life of profound
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  complexity, extraordinary joy and deep personal loss.
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  He once said no one is any one thing.
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  For a sentence with only 5 words, it sure says a lot.
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  The funny one, the serious one, the strong one, the one who
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  struggles, the successful one, the one who never quite got
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  there. We collapse entire human beings
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  into a single characteristic and then live, or let others live
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  inside that narrow definition as if it were the whole truth.
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  But no one is any one thing, not even close.
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  The person who makes the room laugh is also the person who
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  sits in silence at 2:00 AM, missing the person they've lost.
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  The one who projects confidence may have spent the last 10 years
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  doubting everything, The one you've written off as difficult
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  as a tenderness you've never been allowed to see.
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  And the one who seems to have it all is quietly carrying
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  something no one knows about. Martin Short understood this not
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  as an abstract philosophy, but as the lived experience of his
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  own life. The world knew him as one of the
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  funniest men in Hollywood. But in private he lost his wife
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  Nancy after 30 years of marriage, and he described her
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  death as by far the most awful thing he's ever been through.
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  But yet he kept going, and he said it was because his children
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  were watching, looking to him to show them that the family was
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  still standing. The comedian grieving, the man
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  who makes the world laugh sitting on a porch at twilight,
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  missing the person he loved the most.
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  Both completely true, but neither is the whole story.
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  This is what Short is pointing at.
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  Every person you know, the very person you are, contains far
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  more than the version you most often show the world, and the
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  freedom that comes from really accepting that for yourself and
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  for the people around you is extraordinary.
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  You stop expecting people to be only one thing.
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  You stop expecting yourself to be only one thing, and you start
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  allowing the full, complicated, irreducibly human truth of what
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  a person actually is. No one is any one thing.
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  That includes the people you admire most and the person you
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  see in the mirror. So here's the question.
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  What single story have you been telling about yourself, or about
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  someone in your life that is leaving out far more than it
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  includes? Because people are not their
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  labels, not their worst moment and not their public face, not
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  the version of them that fits most conveniently into your
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  understanding. They are all of it.
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  The light and the shadow, the laughter and the grief, the
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  strength and the private struggling.
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  Give yourself and the people around you the full picture.
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  It's far more interesting than the one word version, and far
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  more true. That's it for today.
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  I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.