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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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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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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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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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 begged my mom for a beat machine, she spent a crazy amount of money - so there were no more Christmases, no more basketball camps, no more birthday gifts. I always knew that's what I wanted to do.
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It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.
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I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.
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Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.
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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.
