Ben Sherwood Quotes
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde -
I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
Imelda May -
Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
Jack Dangermond -
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot -
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
Aaron Neville -
Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
Garry Trudeau
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
Eckhart Tolle -
In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.
Patrick Chan -
Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Novels are longer than life.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
Fatou Bensouda -
In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
Ralph Baer
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
Adam Ferguson -
After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.
Irina Shayk -
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
Nancy Gibbs -
In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
Ilana Glazer -
Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
Zubin Mehta
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Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
Ban Ki-moon -
My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
Omar Dorsey -
Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.
Zach Wamp -
I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
When you can’t fight or flee you flow.
Ben Sherwood