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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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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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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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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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 lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
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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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I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
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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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I like to be as free as possible at all times.
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You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.
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As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
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A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.
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Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.
