Benjamin Zander Quotes
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
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Why am I seeking logic or sanity here? I'd asked myself at the moment. There hasn’t been any so far.
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A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
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I don't think I'm all that interesting. I mean, I'm a guy who does a morning show and goes to bed at 9:00 every night. I mean, I don't have a lot in my life that's really fascinated or fodder for tabloids.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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The best part about winning the PGA is getting great pairings at tour events. It's fun to play with Phil Mickelson and other past major champions.
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One of the things I love about shooting the most is that there's no specific body type or body build that someone has to have.
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Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
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A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.
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As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life of Brian' - if people actually live what he did, it would be a pretty good world. But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.
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Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.
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The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.
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People don't want to leave Facebook to play games - Zynga's phenomenal success is proof of that.
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I have a definition of success.
