Donald Hall Quotes
When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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What you see is what you get.
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I'd like to be more spontaneous.
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As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.
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The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.
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I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.'
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A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.
