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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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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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
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For just being a black artist in rock n' roll and be able to step outside and create, and make great music. And just be different. Just a different breed. And that's what I love about Jimi Hendrix's music - the way he plays the guitar is so different. He's just an icon all around.
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My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.
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Don't look back all you'll ever get is the dust from the steps before I don't have to see you every day, but I just want to know youre there
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Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.
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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.
