James Theodore Bent Quotes
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
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Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher,What if a lovely and unsistered creatureLoved her own harmless gift of pleasing feature.
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After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.
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Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.
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The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.
