Ben Fong-Torres Quotes

No matter how close we got to a station or a disc jockey ... they could disappear into the ether without so much as a wave goodbye or a farewell song.

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• If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Science

• I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Fun
  • Right
  • WIld

• It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Home
  • Moments

• I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Work
  • Hurt
  • Professional

• It is bad if you praise, and worse if you reprove a thing, I mean, if you do not understand the matter well.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Bad

• Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

  

  Algernon Sidney

• Kisses sweeter than Tupelo honey.Little bit crazy like New Orleans.Memphis blue and Daytona sunny.Soft as cotton in some cut-off jeans.Don't you know, ain't nothing in the whole wide world like a Southern girl.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • World
  • Girl
  • Crazy

• By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Pretty

• Be known as a great resource. Are you an Excel genius? An expert on local restaurants? Fabulous at proofreading? Go beyond your job description by being an open resource for others in the company who could benefit from your talents. I believe that paying it forward will serve you well one way or another in the future.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Job

• Every time before I go into the studio, I say a prayer, and I really ask God for inspiration.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Inspiration

• I think realising that you're individual and unique is really amazing.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Amazing
  • Unique

• I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Interesting

• I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

  

  Penelope Keith

• Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Growth
  • Poverty

• I have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with merchandise, surprisingly. But I do make money by just having my songs in the background of television shows or in commercials or movie trailers. That's been really good.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Good
  • Money
  • Movie

• Researchers consistently find that most older volunteers, when compared to older nonvolunteers, have fewer functional and physical impairments, overall better health, higher life satisfaction and less depression. In addition, they attend religious services more frequently and belong to more social organizations.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Life
  • Health
  • Religious

• That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don't play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Character
  • Freedom
  • Comedy

• I think wherever you go, when people hear good music, they will react to it.

  

  Wiz Khalifa
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• When you are born into a family like mine, you don't really know anything else. But you quickly realise that it's more about other people and how they are dealing with it. Some can be hugely in awe or uncomfortable, but to you, your parents are just your parents.

  

  Jade Jagger
  • People
  • Family
  • Parents

• By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wishes
  • Folly

• No matter how close we got to a station or a disc jockey ... they could disappear into the ether without so much as a wave goodbye or a farewell song.

  

  Ben Fong-Torres
  • Song
  • Goodbye
  • Disc jockeys