John Benjamin Hickey Quotes
I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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Justice is revenge.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for 'Nightly News' and it'll end up on 'Dateline.'
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Sickness is real. However, I've seen too many people suffering with sicknesses not of their own choosing to say glibly that all sickness is caused by sin. On the other hand, to believe that sin does not exist and that all of our trials and tribulations have naturalistic explanations or are simply random events may cause us to miss the very solution we seek. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland observed that "too many people . . . want to sin and call it psychology."
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Art is an intersection of many human needs.
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I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.
