Dirk Benedict Quotes
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
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The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.
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There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.
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I got to Broadway a year after I came to New York. I starred in 'Butterflies Are Free' and got a Tony for it. Right out of the gate. Maybe that's why I wasn't very gracious about it. I wasn't driven. And right after 'Butterflies Are Free', I got married and then started a family. I always wanted that.
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America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
