Dirk Benedict Quotes
I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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I like to stay home with my family.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
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We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.
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As a card-carrying space nerd and NASA's chief scientist, I love space movies, from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to my all-time favorite - 'The Dish', an Australian comedy that celebrates that first moment when Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of our moon.
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As far as aging on screen is concerned, I am sure the TV audience don't go by stereotypes - they have evolved and become smarter over the years.
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If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.
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I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
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I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
