Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes
Trouble with women. Can't do any art and be married if you're in love with your wife.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
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He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
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Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.
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Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.
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I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.
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American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.
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I was doing musical theatre 'til I was, like, 17, and then I started realising I could use my voice in a more, like, current way.
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My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'
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Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
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People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
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When deeds speak, words are nothing.
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I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.
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Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.
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Trouble with women. Can't do any art and be married if you're in love with your wife.
