Aleqa Hammond Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
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Save myself from death is that it?! Is that why I've come here?! I'm not afraid to die! At times I've welcomed death!
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It's very different working with all adults. I have a swear jar so that, if they have a potty mouth, I make them pay. That's what it's like being on set with adults.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.
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If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.
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Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact.
