N. Robert Hammer Quotes
Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.
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'To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
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We never do two shows the same way. The audience has a lot to do with that spontaneity, and it's our job to satisfy them.
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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
