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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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'm not recognised much at all.
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I don't know much, but I like talking to people who know a lot more than I do.
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I've seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving.
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I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.
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My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
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During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.
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Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.
