Ben Weaver Quotes

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• The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Why
  • Personality
  • Find

• We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Religion

• The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Peace
  • Sorry
  • Been

• To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Understanding
  • End

• Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Together
  • Deep
  • Tools

• People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Brave
  • Week

• When in doubt, do it.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Doubt
  • When In Doubt

• I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Age
  • Weird

• I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Experience
  • Mean
  • Honest

• I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Something
  • Try
  • Average

• There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Decisions

• Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Political
  • Party
  • Name

• The problem is that you can't really read a script saying, 'Hmmm, I'll just see what this is.' You have to go right into it; you have to get engaged with it, and once you are engaged, you want to do it! It's really difficult to get uninvolved.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Saying

• Even the bad things are better than they used to be. Bad music, for instance, has gotten much briefer. Wagner's Ring Cycle takes four days to perform while 'Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm' by the Crash Test Dummies lasts little more than three minutes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Music
  • Bad

• Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.

  

  Paul Watson
  • World
  • Good

• I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.

  

  Princess Diana

• Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Time
  • Taken

• "Strangers may not lodge complaints till they have been in residence here for ninety days," the Cacique said, "and no stranger has ever remained with us that long." "My complaint won't hold for ninety days. I accuse you people of eating men."

  

  R. A. Lafferty
  • People
  • Men
  • Long

• Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Justice
  • All Things

• Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Diamond
  • Spontaneity

• I don't wear diamond necklaces. I'm not against it but I never could afford it, so now I just wear gold. I wear bracelets, rings, anklets.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Gold
  • Diamond
  • Afford

• That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet. The more I spoke of the bird, the more it seemed that, somehow, its existence had been a chimera. Admittedly, my survey was small and unscientific, but intelligent people who could reel off the names of various dinosaurs and identify sparrows at epic distances could not name the forgotten parakeet. I realized, forcefully, what I suppose I knew abstractly: Histories, like species, can go extinct.

  

  Christopher Cokinos
  • Intelligent
  • Distance
  • Bird

• The world is a diamond cut from our surprise.

  

  Ben Weaver
  • Surprise
  • Diamond
  • Cut