Benjamin Wittes Quotes
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Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.
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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.
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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.
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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.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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Actors need to learn when their character is front and center and when it's more in the background.
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When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.
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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.
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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.
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It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.
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A novel is 400 pages; it's an endurance race. There's no artist, so I have to describe everything. It's all prose. Whereas with comics, I can rely on the artist. It's really wonderful to have that collaboration and to not always feel the burden of describing everything myself and also just to have someone who can paint the world.
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'They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.'
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Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.
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These kids are already hard. They don't need to be made harder. The issue is softening them up. They need to learn how to care about life again. They've lost that. That's what we need to give back to them.
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There's all kinds of crazy right-wing conspiracies about me.
