Armand Hammer Quotes
People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
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Musicals are very collaborative. Unless you find somebody who wants to do something with you and has equal commitment, it's not going to work.
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The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
