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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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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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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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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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
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Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are guttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your pack,And leave your friends and go.Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,Look not to left nor right:In all the endless road you treadThere's nothing but the night.
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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
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Tech companies tend to do tech best.
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We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that understanding, to revert to its pristine state.
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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.
