Ben Dreyfuss Quotes
Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
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I do think America has made it quite clear that it is in the interest both of America and China to avoid situations in which they will be pushed toward a collision.
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I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
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Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
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There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.
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The opposite of pragmatism is not idealism. It’s wishful thinking.
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10) Anarchy is the least stable of social structures.
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I think it tells the truth and it cuts to the heart of so many profound aspects of human experience unlike many musicals, which cover more frivolous topics.
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If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.
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If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.
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There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.
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You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.
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Both the aphorism and the poem channel man’s wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully constructed.
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
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Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story.
