Ammon Hennacy Quotes
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.
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The most interesting thing in the world, from the standpoint of animal economy-which of course includes human economy-is the wonderful laboratory or factory of the plant...
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The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.
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The first time I went to New York, I went with my first boyfriend, Clark. His dad had just bought an apartment in New York, and my dad dropped us off, and we were there for a week on our own. I must have been 15 or 16. I remember I went to Harlem and bought a goose jacket. That was the hip, hot thing.
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One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
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I love my enemies, but am hell on my friends.
