William Bennett Quotes
Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally throughout college. I actually got my SAG card in college.
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I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
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Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
