Benjamin Wittes Quotes

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• Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Spiritual

• Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

  

  J Allard
  • People
  • Music
  • Video Games

• Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • People
  • Attention
  • Hurt

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Funny

• The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Job
  • Best
  • Philosophy

• You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Government
  • Trust
  • Body

• No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Up
  • Future
  • Day

• I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.

  

  E. L. James
  • Work
  • Television
  • British

• I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Marriage

• Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Religious
  • Sense
  • Did

• I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Love
  • Working
  • Friday

• When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Child
  • Start
  • Year

• News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Time
  • War
  • Look

• Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Style

• It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • You
  • Funny
  • Actor

• When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Want
  • You
  • Realize

• 'They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.'

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • Why

• Dealing with political things, it's not for me. It makes me crazy. I want to buy, you want to sell. Please make it simple.

  

  Pier Luigi Loro Piana
  • Political
  • Simple
  • Crazy

• I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Elderly

• We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.

  

  Peter T. King
  • World
  • American
  • Doubt

• There's all kinds of crazy right-wing conspiracies about me.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Crazy
  • Conspiracies