Ben Sherwood Quotes
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
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That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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We will not lose this election for lack of money.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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I don't hold grudges.
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They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.
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I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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Leadership is experiential... it's really a trained art.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
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The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part.
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...the enduring human need to be remembered.
