Albert Hammond, Jr. Quotes
When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.
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For me, changing my physical appearance for a character is never a problem. If I have to look a certain way for a role, I just do it.
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I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, 'Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together,' and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that.
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When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.
