William Gurney Benham Quotes
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.
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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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I'm a huge fan of Flying Lotus. I like The XX's stuff.
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This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
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It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.
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The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
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It was a mighty while ago.
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When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man.
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I was always the serious kid.
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In 'Queer as Folk,' we had three or four sex scenes in every episode, so I got used to doing that very early on. Those kinds of scenes can be challenging. They take a bit of time, and everyone's a bit nervous.
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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Most modern stuff I hear kinda sucks, someone should turn me onto something good, fast!
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Because I started my career in improv, performing with Second City and the Ace Trucking Company, I always enjoy being in situations where - as an actor - you have to think fast & be light on your feet.
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The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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'Watchmen' is like the music you feel is written just for you. 'That's my song, no one else gets that but me.' That's why the fan base is so rabid, because they feel personal about it.
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I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.
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You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right or wrong - they're just not informed.
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What's the use of running when you are on the wrong road?