Tyler Hamilton Quotes
If you weren't a risk-taker, you were always going to be a step behind. You could be the best cyclist in the world, but if you weren't a risk-taker, you weren't going to win the Tour de France.
Quotes to Explore
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.
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I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
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These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
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If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.
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I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.
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I think the best thing I've written is a story called 'The Boxer and the Blonde.' It's a piece about Billy Conn, the white would-be heavyweight champion of the world, who lived in Pittsburgh.
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If you weren't a risk-taker, you were always going to be a step behind. You could be the best cyclist in the world, but if you weren't a risk-taker, you weren't going to win the Tour de France.
