Darell Hammond Quotes
If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
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People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.
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The truest you can be is taking off those clothes.
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After all, why should ordinary people want to contemplate the End, especially when we see the condition of those who do?
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I have a hard time with people who say they write for children but they don't really like children. I love children. I love talking with them.
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If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.
