Johnny Bench Quotes
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People always want to doubt you.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.
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I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.
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I never wanted to be a bombshell; I wanted to be an actor. I would much prefer to be a woman than a man, but if I was a dude, maybe I'd have Johnny Depp's island because women in this industry after a certain age definitely don't get to do 'Pirates of the Caribbean.'
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I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.
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I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and between compassion and competitiveness. There's always something at the end you have to find to live a full life, but it's hard to find.
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The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?
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If the story wasn't overly long, I'd type it out. And I'd carry it around with me for a week and jot notes on it, and then I'd throw it away and do another one.
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I can throw out any man alive.
