Darell Hammond Quotes
Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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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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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.
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I'm quite contradictory - a bit OCD, but quite untidy. I have piles of stuff everywhere, but they make sense to me. And I'll find the one thing in the room that's my boyfriend's, and complain about him leaving it out.
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I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.
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I have been in Wall Street all of my life. I love it. It has been good to me. I know many wonderful, decent, honorable, ethical, hard-working people that were in Wall Street with me.
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Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.
