Ben Eine Quotes

My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.

Ben Eine

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• A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Remember
  • Baby

• Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Life
  • Men
  • Career

• Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Mirror
  • Face
  • Once

• If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • You
  • Me
  • Fire

• Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Want
  • Like
  • Story

• I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • World
  • Better
  • Doing

• There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Night
  • Dinner
  • Fresh

• You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Black

• Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Political
  • Gay
  • Agenda

• I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• I have an incredible phobia of divorce.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Divorce
  • Incredible
  • Phobia

• Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • Better
  • Relationships

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• I have employees that are, you know, other types of diversity, coming to me and saying 'Well, why aren't we focused on these other areas as well?' and I said yes, we should focus them, but, you know, the phrase we use internally is, 'If everything is important, then nothing is important.'

  

  Parker Harris
  • Important
  • Know
  • Focus

• I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comfortable

• I felt that it was cool to even get to the point where I was able to audition on the actual 'SNL' stage. Looking back on it, I can't believe that I wasn't more nervous.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Believe
  • Cool
  • Looking Back

• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Birth

• I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Years
  • Lived
  • Los Angeles

• Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Medicine

• Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Art
  • Philosophy
  • Law Of Life

• I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin gods who stand behind a tin star or ten cents' worth of righteous anger and justify their skill and slaughter with a self-conscious grin or a minute's worth of bad philosophy.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Star
  • Philosophy
  • Anger

• You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Philosophy
  • Combination
  • Weaknesses

• I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Philosophy
  • Canvas
  • Boundaries