Jodi Benson Quotes
Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially with our son.
Quotes to Explore
-
My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
-
I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
-
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
-
Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
-
I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
-
I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
-
I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
-
I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
-
I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
-
We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
-
I don't feel closeted.
-
I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
-
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
-
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
-
For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
-
It takes one person to give you a big chance.
-
As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
-
I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
-
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, - and always to plead it successfully.
-
Before you begin your journey toward integrity, you need to determine your starting point. In other words, what's your integrity quotient? How much integrity do you have? Do a moral inventory of yourself. Hold yourself accountable going forward for what you say and do. Moving toward a more faithful, fair, and honest life begins with confronting truthfully who you are. You can't hold yourself accountable if you won't see yourself clearly.
-
What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.
-
I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
-
Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of our own eyes and we see where we had been thinking thoughts that would inevitably lead to pain. Until we change those thoughts, the pain will remain.
-
Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially with our son.
