Josh Hamilton Quotes
The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock and have more control over their existences, and keep things very controlled and placid and keep outside forces at bay.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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I don't know anything about music.
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I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.
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One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.
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As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.
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What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
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If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.
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One second I'll be listening to country, and then the next I'll be listening to rock and then R&B. It's ridiculous. I'm all over the place with my music.
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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I've never been good at saying no.
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
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Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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I was cold-calling agents when I was, like, 9 years old, and I was like, 'Mom, I need this thing called a headshot.'
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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
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It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.
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In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
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The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.
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Ask yourself: Does this appearance (of events) concern the things that are within my own control or those that are not? If it concerns anything outside your control, train yourself not to worry about it.
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A charging black rhinoceros is nothing to mess with. When it is headed straight toward you, it is the ultimate exercise in sphincter control. In my case, it was a strange bit of weather that caused one to charge me.
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Being a white southern African who saw the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, the sense of being an outsider was absolutely instilled in my limbic system.
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The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock and have more control over their existences, and keep things very controlled and placid and keep outside forces at bay.
