Dirk Benedict Quotes
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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.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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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!'
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.
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They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
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I worked on a farm for a little bit.
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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.
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That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.
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Als vorübergehender Zustand ist der Skeptizismus logische Insurrektion; als System ist er Anarchie. Skeptische Methode wäre also ungefähr wie insurgente Regierung.
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The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
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Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
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My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.
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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.
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Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
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Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.
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I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.
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I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.
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As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans - and credit histories - to millions of people who currently lack access to them.
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I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.
