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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We continue to be bullish on China.
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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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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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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 wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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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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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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I don't enjoy jazz guitar in general. I don't enjoy listening to a lot of it. I don't enjoy the tone. In general I've found its role in jazz to be kind of difficult.
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The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.
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To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.
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I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.
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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.
