Albert Hammond, Jr. Quotes

After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clicked, and I just realized, 'I don't want to be like anyone around me at my school. I don't think the world revolves around money.'

Albert Hammond, Jr.

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• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

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• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

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• One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

  

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• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  

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• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

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• Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.

  

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• Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

  

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• The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

  

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• I don't read books.

  

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• I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

  

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• I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.

  

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• I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

  

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• I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.

  

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• Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.

  

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• I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'

  

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• The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

  

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• After boarding school in Switzerland, at, like, 14 or 15, my life clicked, and I just realized, 'I don't want to be like anyone around me at my school. I don't think the world revolves around money.'

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Life
  • World
  • School