Jason Hammel Quotes
Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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When I get onto the pitch, I block out everything around it, and I really focus on the pitch.
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I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.
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I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.
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My mom comes from a really out-there upbringing, so for her, the way she raised me is pretty disciplined. I was home-schooled but more really unschooled, really.
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Because of the Internet, you're sort of forced to deal with people from very different backgrounds and beliefs. It's a great challenge of our time, and depending on when you ask me, I feel optimistic or pessimistic about it.
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Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared.
