Ben Dreyfuss Quotes
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
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I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.
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I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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I do tend to overdo everything.
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My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
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On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.
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Any team can have a bad century.
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If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committing heinous crime, it only means that we have failed them as a society. We have failed to give them a safe, nurturing environment to ensure that they are well-balanced, useful persons in the society.
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It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear – usually justified – the other side would beat them to a pulp.
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Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.
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I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.
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I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now.
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Sometimes it's tougher against bad teams because you can't really get a read on them.
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That's always my downfall on tour: the food. I just want to eat everything.
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The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.
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Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.
