Syd (Sydney Loren Bennett) Quotes
I'm just a really shy person. I don't gravitate towards attention, so for someone like me to have as much attention as I have is bizarre.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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I'm not a very organized person.
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The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
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Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
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You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
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I think I'm good at training dogs, but none of my dogs agree with me on that.
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I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
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I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.
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I suspect I wasn't loved enough as a child.
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I don't do office work at home.
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We are what we think about. When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts. The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.
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I think that when you start rolling with an entourage, you attract attention, and you tend to create this whole big thing. My mom taught me that when you keep a low profile, most people tend to totally miss you because they're not expecting anything.
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I'm just a really shy person. I don't gravitate towards attention, so for someone like me to have as much attention as I have is bizarre.
