Jeff Hawkins Quotes
'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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I tend to stay away from the comics.
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The point is that I am such a big fan of Puccini and that Butterfly is the most difficult and complete role that you can imagine. Just to sing it with a good voice is not enough: it asks tears from your soul. I am very emotional on stage, and the music is so tender that I suffer for real when I am singing it. So I cannot do many performances.
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After moving to L.A., I've started to appreciate the relaxed American look.
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The most signal triumphs of the Romantic portrayal of memory are not those which recall past happiness, but remembrances of those moments when future happiness still seemed possible, when hopes were not yet frustrated.
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The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.
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Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.
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'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.
