Bonnie Hammer Quotes
The loudest voice in the room doesn't always work. In fact, it usually grates to the point - to the point that when you really need to be loud, nobody listens.
Quotes to Explore
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.
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The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
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The loudest voice in the room doesn't always work. In fact, it usually grates to the point - to the point that when you really need to be loud, nobody listens.
