Jane Hamilton Quotes
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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My work ethic is from sports.
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Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.
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Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
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The only people that should vote should be legal.
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I'm happy to say I'm a feminist. Being a feminist is just believing in equal rights. Man, woman, gay, straight, black, white - we're all in it together.
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I love 'Fishing With John' so much.
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There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.
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Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.
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I think getting up every morning is the most amazing thing any of us do. We know what's out there, and yet we keep going.
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C'est ici le combat du jour et de la nuit... Je vois de la lumière noire.
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Without unleashing the power of life-destroying missiles or forcing obedience to a particular law, rainbows dissolve preoccupation with the predictably ordinary and encourage belief in the extra-ordinary. Such belief, such inspiration, provides much more than passive hopefulness.
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I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
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If you have any doubt about the degree with which this is self-defense, just look at those pictures from September 11th.
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The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
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Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.
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I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.
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As a species, we would not have survived without humor.
