Ben Mikaelsen Quotes
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Daft Punk's 'One More Time' remains one of my favorite 'getting ready to go out tonight' songs.
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The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must not simply hide in the shadows and type; one must also stand in the light.
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Defendants would groan whenever they saw me enter a courtroom because I had a reputation for coming armed with the facts and for winning cases.
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The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you'd have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school.
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Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.
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If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.
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We constantly need to go back, look at what we have, think of scenarios where there's no power, no water.
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I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility.
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Whoever wins in 2016, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a Republican, I think they should make it their goal to seal that border within a year.
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Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite real. But that concern isn't new.
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Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful.
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I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking at it in a new way to see what interesting things can emerge.
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I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.
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The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
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When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'
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One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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What would you do if you were President, and, on the first day of May, the Russian Ambassador presented you with a beautiful cake which emitted a curious ticking noise? Would you plunge it into a pail of water - thus insulting Soviet cuisine in general?
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It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
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Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.
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It really made me nervous to write about it [Holocaust] and to approach it, because I was nervous about how to do it respectfully, and I was also thinking about how I could add something new to something that had already been so explored.
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Diminish anything around you and you diminish yourself.
