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 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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I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes.
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Entrepreneurs are not driven by fear; they are driven by the idea to create impact.
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When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work.
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All that Rent the Runway has really done is we've opened up the technology and logistics to make it possible to have the customer decide how long she needs an article of clothing for.
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Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support.
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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.
