Claudia Hammond Quotes
Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.
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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Stick up for what you believe in and never, ever feel that you can't say something or speak your mind. I think that would be the best advice. Be strong. Be confident. That's really all you need.
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Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.
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I know how to stand up for myself. I say no when I want to, yes when I want to, and no one can really change my mind.
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I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.
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Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.
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In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
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'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie – I never did anything bad – because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'
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In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.
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I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.
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Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.
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When self-delusion and self-flattery enter the mind-set of a product team and the metrics they judge themselves by, like the first plague rat coming onto a ship, the end is practically preordained.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.
