Emma Walton Hamilton Quotes
Sometime in my 20s, a wise mentor said something that dramatically changed my outlook and that has stayed with me ever since. She told me to 'wear the mantle with dignity and pride.'
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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Think and grow rich.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.
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Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk.
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The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.
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We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
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Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.
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He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
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I'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the world.
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Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She's also so giving and supportive.
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“Success breeds pride and vanity. And pride is the only reward of success.”
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Sometime in my 20s, a wise mentor said something that dramatically changed my outlook and that has stayed with me ever since. She told me to 'wear the mantle with dignity and pride.'
