Ben Dreyfuss Quotes
The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
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When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them.
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I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.
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Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
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I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
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Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.
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But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
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We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.
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'The solution lies in secrecy,' said Medra. 'But so does the problem.'
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Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.
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I am only satisfied insofar as I feel 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is a definite progress, but even about this picture I am not quite satisfied. There is still too much of the old in it.
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America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.
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I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
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What the Toronto festival premiere did was to reinforce why we wanted to do this. People approached us and said they had no idea how talented Liza was. In the past few years, her skills have been too obscured by the tabloid headlines. It is fantastic to see her being celebrated for what she should be celebrated for.
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The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.
