N. Robert Hammer Quotes
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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The fight for justice for the transgender community is largely invisible to our fellow citizens, despite the rampant systematic discrimination of trans people - those whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.
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We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that's been Connecticut's strength, and it can be again.
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While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.
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The effort that we put forth, it's not his fault. He put the guys in that he trusted, that he thought would get the job done.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
