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.'

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• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

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• For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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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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• English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

  

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

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.

  

  Tabitha King
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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.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
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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.

  

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

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
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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.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
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• I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.

  

  Sam Rockwell
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• Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.

  

  Andrew Solomon
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• What I've learned from sketch is you can get it as perfect as you want, and it's never going to be perfect.

  

  Horatio Sanz
  • Perfect

• I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.

  

  Patty Duke
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• Those self-evident principles of life and liberty, pursuit of happiness, they're not self-executing. They require each of us to get engaged. And what Barack Obama is really concerned about is to ensure that the American people appreciate their power to influence the democracy.

  

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• Business must be a force for good in the world.

  

  David Cooperrider
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• 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