Benjamin Zander Quotes
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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My life is exactly the way it needs to be.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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It's going to be so obvious when something isn't well made for VR. People are going to use the best VR content. That's the stuff that's going to get shown to people. That's the stuff that's going to get demoed. That's most of what people are going to buy.
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There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
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For products with revision possibilities, there is no better source available than a company going out of business!
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Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.
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I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
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If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
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Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
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I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.
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Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare.
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Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.
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For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I'm just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, 'Wow, maybe I can do that one day.'
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Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.
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Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.
