Dirk Benedict Quotes
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I'm not graceful.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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A great deal of her obscurity and cant, Tenar had begun to realize, was mere ineptness with words and ideas. Nobody had ever taught her to think consecutively. Nobody had ever listened to what she said. All that was expected, all that was wanted of her was muddle, mystery, mumbling. She was a witchwoman. She had nothing to do with clear meaning.
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The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.
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If a man ever lets you know that he sees marriage as a trap, and women as nothing but scheming connivers, you are by no means to marry him. Any man that sees your entire sex in so harsh a light has nothing to offer you.
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I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
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The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it.
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The best things in life are usually difficult.
