Benny Urquidez (The Jet) Quotes

Fear is the foundation of all human limitations.

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• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Literature
  • Missing
  • Japanese

• Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Pain
  • Give
  • Worth

• The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Question
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Music
  • Problem

• Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Anything
  • States
  • Collective

• Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Lead

• I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Work
  • Never
  • Sense

• Cipla has already developed a generic version, oseltamivir, which would be much cheaper than Tamiflu, the only available drug effective in treating avian flu.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Drug
  • Available
  • Effective

• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Picture

• Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Development
  • Economic
  • Islam

• I remember watching Audrey Hepburn dancing in movies, and I was inspired by how graceful she looked, though I understand it was no easy task.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Remember
  • Inspired
  • Movies

• I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Love
  • Things
  • Acting

• The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Age
  • Night
  • Man

• When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• (singing) Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!/

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Singing

• I interviewed dozens and dozens of African women who had endured more hardship and trauma than most Westerners even read about, and they ploughed on. I often openly cried during interviews, unable to process this violence and hatred towards women I was witnessing.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Women
  • Violence

• Once I got to college, it seemed that the Hamptons were a little bit too posh for me and didn't represent the kind of values I was embracing in my late teens. So, I didn't go out there, except to visit my parents, for a long time. And then, after 9/11, I discovered it was a nice, mellow place to hang out.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Time
  • Long
  • Parents

• Asian elephants have declined by fifty percent over the last three generations.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Generations
  • Elephants

• When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • American
  • Style
  • Film

• Fear is the foundation of all human limitations.

  

  Benny Urquidez
  • Fear
  • Foundation
  • Human Limitations