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Dirk Benedict

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• I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Brother

• NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Security
  • NATO
  • Cornerstone

• There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • People
  • Want
  • Publish

• If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Fly

• As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Change

• I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Fall
  • Race
  • Back

• 'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Power
  • Career

• There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Power
  • America

• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Reality

• With competition everyone has to try harder.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Competition
  • Try
  • Everyone

• I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • Good
  • Death

• The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Thing
  • Exists

• I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • High
  • Wish
  • Stupid

• Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Great
  • Forgotten

• I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • Same
  • More
  • Quiet

• Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

  

  J. B. Morton
  • Done
  • Justice
  • Seen

• 'Homeland' is great at challenging our preconceived ideas.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Great
  • Ideas
  • Homeland

• When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.

  

  Jessica Mauboy
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Song

• The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

  

  Arthur C. Brooks
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.'

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Kids
  • Crazy

• A quarterback that goes out and performs for you and is a franchise quarterback is more valuable than a player playing another position, but there's a lot more risk there. It's a more difficult position to play, and there are lot more failures.

  

  Bob McNair
  • Player
  • Risk

• That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Brain
  • Mistake

• Movies are movies, television is television.

  

  Dirk Benedict