Alexander Hamilton Quotes

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Alexander Hamilton

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• Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Business
  • City
  • Identity

• I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Me
  • Connection
  • Kid

• Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Stars

• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Free
  • Humanity
  • Religion

• The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Perfect
  • Mistake
  • Learn

• I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Health
  • Government
  • Economy

• For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Never
  • Air
  • Enough

• I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • Live
  • Pretty

• I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Home
  • Learn

• I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Real
  • Society
  • Free

• No man was ever great by imitation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Imitation

• We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • People
  • Think
  • Better

• My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Business
  • Father
  • Man

• From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Something
  • My Own
  • Anxious

• Customers are using BetterWorks in a number of creative ways to reward and incentivize employees.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Creative
  • Reward
  • Employees

• Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

  

  Julia Child
  • Interested
  • Passionate
  • Keep

• I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.

  

  Paula Deen
  • Funny
  • Haters

• If your car takes 95 and you put 87 in it, it's gonna run sluggish, right? A lot of people don't realize what you put in your body affects your mechanics, and you're gonna run sluggish.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • People
  • Car

• India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Country
  • India
  • Self-Esteem

• When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Fighting
  • Winning
  • Break

• We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

  

  Alexander Hamilton