Albert Hammond, Jr. Quotes
My idea was you can't dress for the stage, you have to dress all the time like you're onstage. And so I would just always wear suits or some form of it. I wanted people to know I played music. That was kind of how you would find other people: you would just walk around looking a certain way and end up meeting someone who liked the way you look.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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People want you to fail.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
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I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.
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What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
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My idea was you can't dress for the stage, you have to dress all the time like you're onstage. And so I would just always wear suits or some form of it. I wanted people to know I played music. That was kind of how you would find other people: you would just walk around looking a certain way and end up meeting someone who liked the way you look.
