Ben Loory Quotes
Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
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When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'
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Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
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When I say what I say it’s because what I say has overcome me.
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I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
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There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.
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The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.
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Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
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They're responsible for the problem of cultural meanness.
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Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted, thoughtful and mind-bending tales I know I’m in for a treat. This collection is sci-fi at its intelligent best.
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The Beatles and the Stones are for blowing your mind. The Doors are for afterward, when your mind is already gone . . .
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I write very slowly.
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Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost.
