Joel Benenson Quotes
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There are just so many young designers now.
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Alaska itself is an unusual state.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
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Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.
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The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.
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I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
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I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.
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If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we can regain the realization that everything we need is already inside us and anything is attainable.
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I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a scheme which is both responsible and which meets our international commitments.
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'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.
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I've never really fit in anywhere.
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I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
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'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.
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I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.
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I love doing concert music.
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The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
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I think it's sort of a compliment. Jay Mohr does it in front of me all the time. I've got another friend who does me on his answering machine. When I call him, I hear myself.
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To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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I'm still a hard-edged reporter, but I'm an optimist. I'm a perpetual optimist.
