Benjamin Thompson Quotes

Inspiration drives us to be more than we are by allowing us to see all that we could be.

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• Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Hip Hop

• When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • War
  • Trees
  • Buildings

• My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Time
  • Everyday
  • Innovation

• If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • You
  • Teacher
  • Disciple

• I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Time
  • Power
  • Technology

• There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Way
  • Number
  • How

• As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Society
  • Own

• And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Country
  • High
  • Today

• It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Care

• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

  

  Fanny Brice
  • World
  • Think
  • Know

• Producing should be a creative responsibility.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Responsibility
  • Creative

• You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Story

• Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Technology

• Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Children
  • Education

• In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Difficult

• I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Long
  • Love
  • May

• Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Community

• Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

  

  William Laud
  • Men
  • Ambition
  • Sin

• The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Up
  • Weekend
  • Percent

• The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground of consolation amidst the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good.

  

  Octavius Winslow
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Working
  • Year
  • Active

• We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Women
  • Literature
  • See

• Inspiration drives us to be more than we are by allowing us to see all that we could be.

  

  Benjamin Thompson
  • Inspiration
  • See
  • Drives