Albert Hammond, Jr. Quotes
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There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
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It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.
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People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
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Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
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A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.
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I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.
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I'd never take any credit for David's music - that's all his.
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No religion is responsible for terrorism - people are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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Detachment from the world as an attachment to the ego… Who can realize the detachment in which you are as far away from yourself as you are from the world?
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Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' is where I got the title 'Momentary Masters.'
