Tyler Hamilton Quotes

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

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• I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

  

  Barney Ross
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  • Alone
  • Blue

• After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
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  • World

• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
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  • Music
  • Society

• I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.

  

  Ursula Andress
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  • Live
  • Run

• We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

  

  Jack Dangermond
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  • Country
  • Education

• I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

  

  Rachel Boston
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  • Light
  • City

• I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person, and knowing that I had to go on set in next to nothing, it scared me, but at the same time, I knew it would be a challenge to open me up, not only as an actress but as a person.

  

  Tahyna Tozzi
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  • Time
  • Myself

• There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when I was growing up, but I can't think of anything that happened or anybody in particular who inspired me; it all came from within.

  

  Garry Hynes
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  • Family
  • Growing

• I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.

  

  Haley Bennett
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  • Play
  • Sports

• I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

  

  Jackson Browne
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  • Reading
  • Mark

• My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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  • Time
  • Money

• I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.

  

  Sam Kinison
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  • Comedy
  • Give

• In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

  

  Olympia Snowe
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  • Achieve
  • Finding

• The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

  

  Gary Locke
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  • World
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• Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

  

  O. Henry
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  • Home
  • Funny

• I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

  

  Ice Cube
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  • Time
  • Father

• Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Eyes
  • Learn
  • Ears

• You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

  

  Walt Disney
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  • Kids
  • You

• Dr. King used to say, 'I was sitting in the back of the bus, but my mind was always up front.' Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. You aim high and you work very hard and now I think it's clear that you can be anything you want to.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
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  • Work
  • Mind

• If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

  

  Betty Carter
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Beginning

• Tebow would never hit the field.

  

  Jerry Jones

• Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.

  

  Cliff Stearns
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  • Future
  • Retirement

• I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very incredible visual things where, in order just to make one chord more lethal, I'd make it a really lethal looking thing, whereas really it's just going to be picked normally.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
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• They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

  

  Tyler Hamilton
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