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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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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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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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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You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.
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You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
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I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.
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Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
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For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.
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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.
