Cedric Benson Quotes
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It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.
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I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.
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It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
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What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.
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Peoples of European descent are not only in a relative but a real decline. They are aging, dying, disappearing. This is the existential crisis of the West.
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People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'
Garry Kasparov
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People have said, 'You've turned your back on pediatrics.' I said, 'No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.'
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Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
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I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff. And I think, even today, that's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.
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I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.
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Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself.
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We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
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I know that people in fashion and people in general hate to be filmed.
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In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
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I just want choices. It's not about making money and having a lot of friends in Hollywood; that's the last thing I want.
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Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.
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There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.
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I'll give him a run for his money.
