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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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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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 wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.
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While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
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If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature.
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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.
