Ammon Hennacy Quotes
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.
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Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.
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Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.
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A second later, when he looked up at me, we were face to face, and again, even under these circumstances, I was struck by how good looking he was, in that accidental, doesn't-even-know-it kind of way. Which only made it worse. Or better. Or whatever. "Yup", he said, as if there'd been any doubt, "you're in there, all right." "I was warned, too,"I told him, as he stood up. "I just saw that sculpture, and I got distracted." "The sculpture?" He looked at it, then at me. "Oh, right. Because you know it.
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I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale, they thought it was a lock to pick.
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Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.
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I'm a fan of LeBron James. I'm not really a team fan; I'm just a fan of one player.
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It's well documented that stop-and-go traffic wears more on a vehicle than consistent-speed highway driving. No matter our driving habits, we all know we must regularly maintain our car's vitals - oil, tires, brakes, etc. Similarly, our brains and bodies perform best with a mindful focus on tasks and a routine maintenance of healthy habits.
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“I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.”
