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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Immigration reform is for those thousands of people in my district and the millions of people across the country who want nothing more than to work hard, provide for their families, and reach for the American Dream.
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My general advice for writers/comedians is, make stuff you like and are proud of. Put it in a place where people can see it, whether that's onstage or on the Internet or wherever. Just do the things that make you happy creatively, and then show them to people.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
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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.
