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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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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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 went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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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 create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.
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What a director is looking for is someone who will follow you and no matter what. And if you ask for blue, he's gonna try blue. And if you say, give me a piece of red with it, and they try. And you don't mind so much if it's difficult to get the blue and the red together. As long as they try. And as long as they give everything they can to give you what you want. That's what I'm looking for.
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
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I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young, you didn't have very many opportunities to find out with no web, TV. I was very lucky: I was born in the city of Chicago and went to the University of Chicago where I actually saw things.
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The best things in life are usually difficult.
