Bonnie Hammer Quotes
When NBC bought USA and SCI FI in 2004, Jeff Zucker put me in charge of USA Networks. We did a lot of research to find out what was working and what wasn't, and we actually had to hear a lot of things we didn't like. USA was predictable; it was boring.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it's critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day - and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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Mutations can arise anywhere in the genome, in gene DNA and noncoding DNA alike. But mutations to genes have bigger consequences: They can disable proteins and kill a creature.
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I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.
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Oscar Williams’s new book is pleasanter and a little quieter than his old, which gave the impression of having been written on a typewriter by a typewriter.
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More than a quarter of mortgage borrowers are underwater, and 11 percent of all homes are vacant.
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
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I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.
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It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
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Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.
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I feel like British designers are having a real moment; there's a lot of freedom to be different, and I think that that's what so unique. There's no expectation of what you're going to see at London Fashion Week, and I think that's why you get such a mixed bag of sweets.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.
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But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.
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Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.
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When NBC bought USA and SCI FI in 2004, Jeff Zucker put me in charge of USA Networks. We did a lot of research to find out what was working and what wasn't, and we actually had to hear a lot of things we didn't like. USA was predictable; it was boring.
