Benjamin Wittes Quotes
Drosnin's 'The Bible Code' would hardly be worth mentioning were it not such a smash hit.
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I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.
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When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'
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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
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Now that I'm famous, guys don't hit on me.
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Sure, I was depressed for a while. But I was just happy we had a hit. It was cool to know that the band was still together and had gigs to play.
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He can hit the ball out of the park anywhere, probably out of the Grand Canyon.
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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
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Everybody has a gameplan until he gets hit.
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It all rolls up and I think in the final analysis somewhere it's going to hit the consumer.
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One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
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Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.
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Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you'll hit the bull's-eye of success.
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There's going to be good plays that happen and bad plays that happen, but at the end of the day, when you have the chance to hit a big play, you have to hit it.
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If film critics could destroy a movie, Michael Bay and Adam Sandler would be working at Starbucks. If film critics could make a movie a hit, the Dardenne brothers would be courted by every studio in town.
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You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
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I didn't try to hit him. I just tried to make my pitch and the ball went out of my hand.
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You could have a season where you hit .330 and did all these great things, but nothing ever materialized from it and you went home October One. Or you could hit .260 and have key hits and key plays on defense that help your team get to the playoffs and win the World Series.
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If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
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I can sit in my room and write a song that I think might be a hit. I can sort of make myself do that, and then I'll play it to a friend, and they'll say, 'Oh, that's nice.' But when something happens to me, and I sit down and write a song to get rid of my emotions, they'll turn around and say, 'Wow, that's great.'
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I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.
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I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.
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Drosnin's 'The Bible Code' would hardly be worth mentioning were it not such a smash hit.
