Jodi Benson Quotes
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.
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I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!
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The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind
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It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.
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Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.
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When I first came to college, it was a time that I was trying to figure out, 'Who am I? What makes me special?' and I started to find most of my value in the fact that I was thin.
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I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time.
