Benjamin Day Quotes

Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool.

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• When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Pressure

• The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • President
  • Option
  • Big

• We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Hypocrisy

• I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Attention
  • Crazy

• At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Sound

• Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Possible
  • Hold
  • Grip

• Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Fight
  • Injustice

• God enters by a private door into every individual.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Faith
  • Door

• That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Father

• I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Up
  • Help
  • Morning

• That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

  

  Luc Montagnier
  • Important
  • Why

• Those moments onstage when you realize what you and your compatriots are doing matters - someone in that room needs to hear that story, someone needs to escape or heal or learn or breathe, and remember, we're all in this together.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Moments

• Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

  

  Douglas Wilder
  • Team
  • Running

• I've always been a believer that if you don't bet on yourself, how can you ask anyone else to.

  

  Carlos Beruff

• My mum's a bouncy, energetic, driven, crazy woman, and my dad's very relaxed, doesn't say much. I have the best of both worlds in my personality.

  

  Ella McMahon
  • Dad
  • Crazy
  • Personality

• Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Personality

• I believe in karma.

  

  Chad Kroeger Nickelback
  • Believe
  • Karma

• Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, he poured a small amount of oleic acid, a natural surfactant which tends to form a dense film at the water-air interface.

  

  Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
  • Beautiful
  • Small
  • Water

• My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.

  

  Brendan Myers
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Book

• My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

  

  David Antin
  • Why
  • She
  • Mother

• I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Want
  • Everyday
  • Own

• The balcony extended over the void like a diving board over a pool.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Pool
  • Board
  • Void

• Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool.

  

  Benjamin Day
  • Pool
  • Drifting