Richard Rodney Bennett Quotes
People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

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I don't believe I have slept with an under-age girl. It was only recently that I found out that under-age is 18 in this country, okay, but I don't believe that I slept with anyone under 18 in this country.
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Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
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The National is the most advanced package of technological wonders yet assembled under one roof.
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Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.
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We owe it to the American people to take our time to be sure the nominee will uphold their most basic and fundamental rights. The public demands this from the process, and deserve no less.
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That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.
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Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy.
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I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
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Never settle for second when first is available
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Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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My friends from the University of Texas. I've had the same friends for over a decade. My brother films a lot; he usually edits my Workout Wednesdays. All the people who work on my projects are amazing.
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I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.
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I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.
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Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.
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My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.
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Dreams are there to be realized, not to be dreamed. To realize a dream, you have to stay steadfast in your strong will.
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All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.
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When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.
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I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.
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I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.
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People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.