William Gurney Benham Quotes
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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I am very surprised by someone like Alexander Wang. I am amazed how he is good with fashion, with business, with public relations himself, with an attitude in his clothes that is spoken immediately.
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We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.
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Life has not been boring for me.
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Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
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I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.
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These are the moments when the powerful mind or the forceful character feels the ferment of the times, when his thoughts quicken, and when he can inject into the uncertainties of others the creative ideas which will strengthen them with purpose. At such a moment the man who can direct others, in thought or in action, can remake the world.
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There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
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No Dutch, no English, and therefore no planters, no coolie labour, no cash crops, no systematic exhaustion of our soil. Also no whisky, no Calvinism, no syphilis, no foreign administrators. We were left to go our own way and take responsibility for our own affairs.
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I turned down 'American Gigolo.' There are many films - like 'Ghostbusters' - that I turned down... The first one I did was 'Foul Play' with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down 'Animal House' - I turned that down.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but I don't see any use in that. I don't need anything. I live in hotels. Most of my clothes I get for free. I like to invest in ideas. In people.
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Paradise is open to all kind hearts.
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When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.
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By losing present time, we lose all time.
