Bob Benson Quotes
A part of my appreciation for the good which moments bring has come from awareness and recognition. But it has also come from a correspnding sadness which arises from their passing. When something that can never quite be reenacted comes to an end (and all moments are that way), I feel a pensiveness within. This pensiveness gives my life a quality that might be best described as bittersweet. And those moments take on double meaning and richness - because they are here now - and because they will not always be.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.
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Facebook is my life.
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I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long.
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Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.
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I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06
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The only possible solution which will preserve Germany’s honor and Germany’s interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia.
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It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.
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I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate to, who didn't want anything from me, that could relate to me because I didn't want anything from her. It was nice.
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My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.
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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
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What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman.
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I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.
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A part of my appreciation for the good which moments bring has come from awareness and recognition. But it has also come from a correspnding sadness which arises from their passing. When something that can never quite be reenacted comes to an end (and all moments are that way), I feel a pensiveness within. This pensiveness gives my life a quality that might be best described as bittersweet. And those moments take on double meaning and richness - because they are here now - and because they will not always be.
