Jason Hammel Quotes
You are not always going to have your A game; you might have your D game. You have to find a way to throw strikes no matter what.
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I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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I encourage people to embrace whatever it is that makes them different. Not being like everybody, setting your own trends, being your own person, that’s what makes you cool.
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We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.
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We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
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Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.
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You are not always going to have your A game; you might have your D game. You have to find a way to throw strikes no matter what.
