Charles Benbrook Quotes

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Charles Benbrook

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• Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Done
  • Nothing
  • Over

• I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• People don't care about questionnaires.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Care
  • About

• It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Beginning

• I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.

  

  Barry McGee
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Want
  • Because
  • Patient

• When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Ability
  • Down

• I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

  

  Pat Morita
  • Remember
  • You
  • Write

• Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

  

  Barack Obama
  • You
  • Stop
  • Over

• The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Way
  • Never
  • Writer

• Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • High
  • Best

• Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Simple
  • Stupid

• Don Conroy was larger than life and there was never a room he entered that he left without making his mark. At some point in his life, he passed from being merely memorably to being legendary.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life

• I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Work
  • Done
  • Waves

• Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

  

  Livy
  • Nature

• How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Work
  • True

• Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• Can't is the cancer of happen.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Cancer

• One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we've got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • World
  • Politics
  • Conflict

• This is the essence of science. You don’t believe something just because someone famous said it. But.

  

  Anton Zeilinger
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Said

• We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is consenting. With a photograph it's the same: always stolen, and still slightly consenting.

  

  Edouard Boubat
  • Woman
  • Kiss
  • Photo

• The science just hasn't been done.

  

  Charles Benbrook
  • Science
  • Not Done