Benjamin Wittes Quotes
I understand that a lot of people who use phrases like resistance have found my work valuable. But my job is to look at difficult problems of national security in ways that may be useful to policymakers and the public.
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
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When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.
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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
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I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
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I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
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There's no job like 'SNL.' There's no other job you go to where you're like, 'Oh, this is like that live, late-night sketch variety-musical show that shoots in, whatever it is, 10,000 feet of sound stage.' There's nothing like it.
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I'm not a big planner when I travel; I just feel it out.
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There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.
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I wouldn't wish my consort to suffer ennui.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
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I understand that a lot of people who use phrases like resistance have found my work valuable. But my job is to look at difficult problems of national security in ways that may be useful to policymakers and the public.
