Heidi Hammel Quotes
People seem to be afraid of science, and certainly, people seem to be afraid of mathematics. And I think that's such a shame, because I don't think it's as hard as people seem to think it is.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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A 'Cosmo' cover has been my dream my entire life. I cried when I found out.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go?
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.
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I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie as a black woman and can empathize with her because we have had to internalize whiteness in that way to survive.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
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People seem to be afraid of science, and certainly, people seem to be afraid of mathematics. And I think that's such a shame, because I don't think it's as hard as people seem to think it is.
