Joel Benenson Quotes

Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.

Joel Benenson

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• If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Responsibility

• I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Moving On

• I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

  

  Ed Asner
  • God
  • Believe
  • Myself

• Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Life
  • Television
  • Being

• We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • People
  • American
  • Free

• For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Mean
  • Three

• I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Conservative

• Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Education
  • Childhood
  • Early

• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Light

• When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • Question
  • Wife

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • City
  • Place
  • Chicago

• That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Long
  • Together
  • Band

• A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Truth
  • Voice
  • Saying

• One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Never
  • Movies
  • Lose

• In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • History
  • Society
  • Problems

• If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it'll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Country
  • Party
  • Tired

• Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Kind
  • Company
  • Ifs

• I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Up
  • Different
  • School

• I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • People
  • Different
  • Deep

• If you look at your companies, and half of your staff are not female, and a decent percentage of them are not people of color, then you are part of the problem because you need people working for you and you need people in positions of leadership who can exercise their bias and who can exercise their perspective.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Color
  • Leadership

• Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Help
  • Service
  • Perspective

• Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.

  

  Joel Benenson
  • Perspective