Barbara Hamby Quotes
I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside of me all the time. It's funny, I don't really write too much in poetry about Hawaii, but I published a book of stories a couple of years ago.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.
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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
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Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
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How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
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I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.
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On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.
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People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.
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When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.
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I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside of me all the time. It's funny, I don't really write too much in poetry about Hawaii, but I published a book of stories a couple of years ago.
