Benjamin Thompson Quotes
Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
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Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
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That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.
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I'm a gun owner.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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My girl has gone, and said goodbye.Don't you cry, hold your head up high.Don't give up, give love one more try,'Cause there's a right girl for every guy.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.
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We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.
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I hated stand-up.
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
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The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.
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Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.
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Nothing surely is so disgraceful to society and to individuals as unmeaning wastefulness.
