H. Jon Benjamin Quotes
I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.
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Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
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I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
