H. Jon Benjamin Quotes
I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.
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Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!
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Where the bricks are fallen We will build with new stone Where the beams are rotten We will build with new timbers Where the word is unspoken We will build with new speech There is work together A Church for all And a job for each Every man to his work.
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We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
