Jeff Bennett Quotes
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.
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When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.
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Balthazar has a great New York vibe with the accent of a Parisian brasserie. I usually have the corned beef hash with a fried egg on top and wash it all down with Krug Champagne.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.
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Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
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If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.
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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
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I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.
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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
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But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
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She no longer believes very strongly in belief... Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.
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McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.
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"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe.
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I think 'Prince Valiant' was the first cartoon I ever did.
