Darrell Hammond Quotes
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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Voiceover excited me and terrified me. I thought I was going to be really bad at it. It was so freeing and fun to not have to wait for 10 minutes between every setup. They just throw you a direction, and you just say it.
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A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.
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I have to give the SNL crew props - it cannot have been easy to work with me.
