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Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#ago #believing #better #both #comes

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#also #among #burn #compared #enemy

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#becoming #close #door #i #kids

I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#always #been #commercials #fan #i

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#fun #increasingly #mean #more #specialized

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#always #becoming #child #christmas #day

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#diligently #give #individual #labor #masses

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#assume #becomes #duty #entitles #essential

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#command #duty #gives #humiliated #imposes

I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort. ↗

— Armie Hammer

#basically #chop #come #down #fort