Mark Hamill Quotes
I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society - things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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Even at Westchester High in West LA, I was class clown.
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I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top.
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Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.
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I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.
