Benjamin Zander Quotes
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There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!
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I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
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At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
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People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.
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Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'
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I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.
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The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
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I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
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I love Baltimore. It is a city with a giant heart and has remained one of my favorite places to keep returning to on tour. It is unique and beautiful, and you can't mistake it for anywhere else in the world - Baltimore is one hundred percent Baltimore.
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I feel as though, as an actor, you can only make brave choices when you're acting with people that you're so relaxed with that you can make a mistake.
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As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
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I am simply pointing out that at the rate at which we are going the whole genetic engineering technology will end up in the hands of the political system to be used for the complete control and subjugation of man.
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The thing in Mexico in 1983. I don't want to get into it again because it will open up a whole can of worms, but I apologized profusely and it made me a better person. It was a mistake but it's something I learned from. The other biggest mistake I made was supporting Sheffield United because they're fucking useless.
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My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.
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We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.
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The music is at its best when people are truly digging in.
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When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"
