Hamilton Holt Quotes
There is no such thing in America as an independent press. I am paid for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.
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If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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I think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.
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April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.
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How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing any beast or man the smallest grief, the slightest pain.
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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My father was absolutely no good.
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I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.
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The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.
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The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
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I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.
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There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right.
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'I think we should take money from everyone,' I told her, 'regardless of their ability to pay. After all, this is America.'
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Girls are so in their head about their body image. It doesn't matter how confident you are - it's hormones!
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Maybe there's a little girl who thinks she can be an Olympic athlete, and she sees all the things I struggled through to get here. Yeah, I didn't walk away with a medal or run away with a medal, but I think there's lessons to be learned when you win and lessons to be learned when you lose.
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There is no such thing in America as an independent press. I am paid for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with.
