Hannah John-Kamen Quotes
Growing up with strong female role models is always inspiring, and growing up, that was something I aspired to play.
Quotes to Explore
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It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.
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There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard.
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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
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Team members need to be able to admit their weaknesses and mistakes, to acknowledge the strengths of others, and to apologize when they do something wrong.
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Whatever insults my State insults me.
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I have obeyed the law. I have nothing to hide.
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I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.
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Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.
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Robert Kirkman can't bear it when I wear flip-flops. He takes pictures of my flip-flops and keeps sending them to me, like, 'What are you doing? Rick Grimes is not a flip-flop kind of guy.'
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Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
Elliott Erwitt
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Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.
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President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans. Our rights are not given to us by government, they are endowed by our Creator.
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Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?'
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It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.
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We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.
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In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.
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Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.
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The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but America used to produce MBAs by the millions, and you saw the German economy, until at least the '90s, was certainly more efficient than the American economy.
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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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There is no way to know Jackson’s thought process as he prepared to engage the Union army in front of him. He knew very little about it and certainly he had no idea that, at the moment he ordered his men to advance, he was actually outnumbered five to one. But it was characteristic of the man that his means of determining the enemy’s strength was to hit the enemy in the face and then see what happened. Typical, too, was his impatience to fight. As at Port Republic, he chose to attack before his full force had arrived.
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It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
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Growing up with strong female role models is always inspiring, and growing up, that was something I aspired to play.
