Johnny Bench Quotes
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.
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Reading equals hope times change.
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Seve Ballesteros was the best trouble-shot player who ever lived. It didn't matter how far in the woods you put that guy, he'd find a way to get out. But Seve inadvertently put a lot of big numbers on the scorecards of average players, because he inspired them to take dumb chances.
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To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.
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Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't.
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You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.
