Homer Hickam Quotes
Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.
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Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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We're extremely excited to see more than 500,000 friends around the globe be added within the first 12 hours of launching Friends on Poptropica. The reaction has been extremely positive from fans, and we're proud to bring a completely safe friends offering to kids on our virtual world.
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All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.
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Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.
