Chris Benz Quotes
While at Parsons, I interned at Marc Jacobs, which was great. When I graduated, I went to work at J. Crew; that was also really great.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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I have a great office.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: 'I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.'
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What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.
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I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.
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The idea of Asian ascendancy has entered public culture.
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While at Parsons, I interned at Marc Jacobs, which was great. When I graduated, I went to work at J. Crew; that was also really great.
