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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Enjoy every sandwich.
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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
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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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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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The best advice I ever got - and it's the best advice I'd give anybody - is just don't believe the word 'no.' Be persistent. Persevere. Keep going. Never, ever, ever give up.
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I grew up watching my dad scout games live. They played on Saturday. Sometimes they wouldn't get the films until Monday. Sunday air shipping from wherever the college team was located - Starkville, Mississippi, or wherever the film was coming from. It took two days.
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Guys like Josh Gordon need to stay in his sport and mind his own business.
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I was completely shocked that Prince would even know my name.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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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.
