Benjamin Zephaniah Quotes

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• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • America
  • Support

• I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • Player
  • Tennis

• 'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Effect

• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Original
  • Both

• I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • World
  • Want
  • I Can

• Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Business
  • Help

• I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.

  

  Cam
  • Life
  • Live
  • Awesome

• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Lib

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Kind
  • Being
  • Radio

• My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

  

  Ed Case
  • Marriage
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.

  

  Sam Altman
  • World
  • Great
  • End

• To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Reading

• The best thing Clinton could do - I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure - is to shut up.... He has no discipline.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Up
  • Discipline

• All men think all men mortal but themselves.

  

  Edward Young
  • Men

• Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourdeur le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• You know, I think in some kinds of ways, we are all born into stuff that gives us no choice.

  

  Al Jarreau

• The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • Knowledge
  • Growing
  • Keys

• The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

  

  Sophocles
  • Sorrow
  • Recognize
  • Adversities

• No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.

  

  Bennet Omalu
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Nature

• At the end of the day, if the guy is going to write the girl a letter, whether it's chicken scratch or scribble or looks like a doctor's note, if he takes the time to put pen to paper and not type something, there's something so incredibly romantic and beautiful about that.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Beautiful

• This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.

  

  Benjamin Zephaniah
  • Freedom
  • Planet
  • Borders