Heidi Hammel Quotes
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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In addition to being the most beautiful score I have ever sung, 'Piazza' gave me the opportunity to honor the matriarchs of my Southern family.
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What's the point of staying sober?
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
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As I was writing 'The Shock Doctrine', I was covering the Iraq War and profiteering from the war, and I started to see these patterns repeat in the aftermath of natural disasters, like the Asian tsunami and then Hurricane Katrina.
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When Prussia hurried to the field,And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.
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You know, we've got to be responsible about our debt. We don't want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not be able to pay its bills, either to our soldiers who are fighting or to Social Security recipients.
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Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.
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Chicago is fun. We've spent a lot of time there, about 15 years. My wife's parents and family live in Chicago, so that's a big selling point.
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I'm not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to play. It feels insulting to the musicians to me.
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One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
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Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
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Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.
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When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
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Hubble made my career.
