Dashiell Hammett Quotes

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

Dashiell Hammett

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• At the Bangalore air show, we got a contract from Boeing for supplying structural components, and we are already supplying jet engine components to Rolls Royce. Both these are titanium-based, not steel components.

  

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• A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

  

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• After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

  

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• I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.

  

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• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  

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• 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

  

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• Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.

  

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• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

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• I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.

  

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• When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

  

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• Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.

  

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• I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

  

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• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

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• Raise as little as you can to get you to something that you can show - plus maybe a quarter or two so you have a little bit of cushion - and then raise some more money. Raise as little - not as much - as you can because that's the most expensive equity you're going to sell.

  

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• People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

  

  Dashiell Hammett
  • People
  • True
  • Suffering