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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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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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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If you really believe that death leads to eternal bliss, then why are you wearing a seatbelt?
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'
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I'm single right now and I've chosen to be single because I don't have the time to get to know anybody. So it's okay not to have sex, it's okay to get to know people. I'm celibate, celibacy's fine.
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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.
