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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I want to make sure that any young person or anyone, really, who is looking up to me - who sees a glimpse of who I am as a person - that they see no shame, that they see pride, and that I'm truly unabashed about the person that I am.
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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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My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.
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I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.
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Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.
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I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
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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.
