Dirk Benedict Quotes

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

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• We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Want
  • Fool

• I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Home
  • Play
  • Present

• I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Voice

• Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Police
  • More
  • Detective

• It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Actor
  • Hard
  • Coffee

• In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Old

• I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Time
  • Think
  • Like

• They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Say
  • Revolutionary
  • They Say

• I worked on a farm for a little bit.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Little
  • Farm
  • Little Bit

• When you’ve had something for ten years that you hold so precious, it’s the toughest thing in the world to hand it over. And the only advice I can give you is, find somebody better than you to hand it to.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • World
  • Hand
  • Advice

• That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Happy
  • Age

• Als vorübergehender Zustand ist der Skeptizismus logische Insurrektion; als System ist er Anarchie. Skeptische Methode wäre also ungefähr wie insurgente Regierung.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men

• Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• It would mean a lot to me to get into the Hall of Fame, to be grouped with some of the greatest players in history.

  

  Leon Day
  • History

• Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Drawing
  • Paris

• I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Life
  • Horse
  • Generosity

• I was an in-between size. I wasn't tall enough to be a real forward, and I probably didn't handle the ball well enough to be a point guard.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Real

• What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Good

• A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of this earth, the chlorophyll, is all summed up in the plants. Without them we perish, all of us who are flesh and blood.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Food

• I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it. It's not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with you life that you want to be the world's lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close.

  

  Bob Hoover
  • Friends
  • Opportunity
  • Survive

• I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

  

  Dirk Benedict