Benjamin Stone Quotes

A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.

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• Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Interest
  • Duty
  • Holy

• Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Long
  • America
  • Think

• Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Bad
  • Reviews
  • Turkey

• I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Mind
  • Real
  • American

• I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Guy
  • Never
  • Punk

• There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.

  

  Isaac Goldberg
  • World
  • Stage
  • Which

• If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Think

• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Real
  • Character
  • Tree

• These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Like
  • Dance

• Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Strong
  • Goal
  • Be Strong

• Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.

  

  Larry King
  • Stories
  • Favorite
  • Les

• In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Future
  • Past
  • Action

• My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Father
  • Fighting
  • Hurt

• I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Up
  • Night
  • College

• We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • World
  • Look

• I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writer

• But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Suffering
  • Wise

• Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Music
  • Meaning
  • Morality

• I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

  

  Helen Keller
  • World
  • Happy
  • Golden

• I think that white people were, no question, the creators of what we call white America.

  

  David Duke
  • Question
  • Creator

• A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.

  

  Benjamin Stone
  • Meaning
  • Direction
  • Empty