Darell Hammond Quotes

Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to intrinsically change the opinion that play is not just a luxury but an absolute necessity for kids' lives.

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• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Army

• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Now

• What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Society
  • Fall
  • Crime

• I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Quality
  • Care
  • Loved

• What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

  

  Nancy Carell
  • Family
  • Small
  • Breakfast

• I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Experience

• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Living
  • Memory
  • Loss

• I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Business
  • Success

• I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Play
  • See

• Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Want
  • Song
  • Rock

• Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• The imagination is man's power over nature.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Man

• Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • You
  • Creativity
  • Room

• Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Government
  • End
  • Plan

• I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Myself

• I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

  

  Jim Brown
  • People
  • Good
  • Kids

• There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very little; but, in my opinion, we know enough to hope for the immortality, the individual immortality, of the better part of man.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Opinion
  • Imagine
  • Immortality

• I'm not above the law. No one is. But we don't want to live in a society where Lady Justice has one eye open and winks at her friends and casts the evil eye at her adversaries. When will it stop?

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Society

• The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people - their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • People
  • Important
  • Team

• Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to intrinsically change the opinion that play is not just a luxury but an absolute necessity for kids' lives.

  

  Darell Hammond
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Hope