Jon Hamm Quotes
I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
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I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
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You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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We thought about switching every day and creating new lines but then we decided not to, ... The whole idea here was the introduction of some concepts of play. Rather then have them worrying about adjusting to new guys every day, we wanted them to concentrate and focus on trying to absorb the system we want to play.
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Atmosphere on the sets of 'YHM' is absolutely brilliant. It's kind of picnic always, and we have a gala time shooting together.
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I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.
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I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.
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Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.
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I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.
