Hamilton Leithauser Quotes
Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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With competition everyone has to try harder.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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With 'Game of Thrones,' there are no real limitations.
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Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'
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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
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When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.
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That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
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I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid.
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Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.
