H. Jon Benjamin Quotes
I've learned to wait 'til an idea is worth making. That's not really a lesson I've learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there's no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.
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I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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My parting words are I’m excited for what’s next. It’s easy for me to sit over a 20 year career and say what I’ve done right or what I’ve done wrong but, I ultimately I have a perspective that’s very clear and educated on an art form.
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Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
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Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.
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We developed our product called Dashboard, which was a software tool that was designed to be a virtual campaign office to help volunteers communicate and collaborate through emails and interacting online. It was our attempt to take an offline field office and merge it online.
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I've learned to wait 'til an idea is worth making. That's not really a lesson I've learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there's no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.
