Benjamin Zander Quotes

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

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• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • You
  • Opinion
  • Judgment

• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Education
  • Day

• In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Always
  • Wishes
  • Philippines

• I do not have any pets. We travel too much.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Travel
  • Too Much
  • Pets

• Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Done
  • Power
  • Know

• Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Coffee

• When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Money
  • You
  • Radio

• A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Country
  • Governance

• Anyone who is afraid to lose isn't ready to win.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Ready

• I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Sweet
  • Now And Then
  • Sweets

• One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Friends
  • Reading
  • Dinner

• What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Gay

• We do like digital projection. We like shooting on film, finishing digitally, and projection digitally. That's what I like best. It's still a movie. It's not someone's camcorder and it got projected. That's mean, I know.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Best

• I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Up
  • High
  • Mom

• Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.

  

  Walter Raleigh

• Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Done
  • Art

• Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Present

• Kendrick Lamar represents Compton's evolution, embodying the New Vision for Compton - Purpose, Prosperity, and Progress.

  

  Aja Brown
  • Purpose
  • Vision
  • Progress

• If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

  

  James Surowiecki

• Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • American

• Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.

  

  Patty Griffin
  • Beautiful
  • Singing

• I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the other neighborhoods around me. I saw way too many of my peers - smart, kind, good kids - who got drawn into gangs and violence, and their futures were going to be forever scarred by that.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

  

  Benjamin Zander
  • Good
  • Story
  • Life is