Homer Hickam Quotes
I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.
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I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
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I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
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I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don't want possessions to hold me down.
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Well, I just don't want to talk to America about my family. Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.
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I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.
