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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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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Humor is a part of spirituality.
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As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.
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Human nature doesn't really change a lot. We haven't changed that much and politics haven't changed that much. It's still the same things we're debating today that we did 300 years ago, which is a little bit scary when you think about it.
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I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.
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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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I can throw out any man alive.
