Earl Hamner, Jr. Quotes
I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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literally thousands of people have told me over the years that they met their wife or husband playing Pong.
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I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it's a vibe.
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I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.
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I think there is this whole part of America that people overlook. I think they know it's there, but they tend to overlook it, become ignorant to it, and refuse to see it for what it is.
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A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out (Der Sparpfennig ist reicher denn der Zinspfenning).
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
