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.

Ben Dreyfuss

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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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• 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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• 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.

  

  Walter Raleigh
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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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• How pleasant to sit on the beach,On the beach, on the sand, in the sun,With ocean galore within reach,And nothing at all to be done!.

  

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• I am afraid that this chapter will amply demonstrate the truth of Clarke's 69th Law, viz., 'Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.' In both cases the cure is simple though usually very expensive.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
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• In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

  

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• I took one acting class as an undergrad, and I loved it. I was in a very avant-garde play at UCLA about a closeted, married homosexual. I played his father.

  

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• Darkness might seem to obscure what's happening, but I find it's always pretty revelatory: it brings out the awe in us, the fear in us, the excitement of exploring the hidden or unknown. It seems to conceal, but it really shines a light on what we want, what we need, and what we'll do to get it. Especially when we think no one can see us.

  

  Kathe Koja
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• When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming.

  

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• ... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
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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.

  

  Ben Dreyfuss
  • Progress
  • Risen
  • Story Of America