Benjamin Tennikoff Quotes
Late nights on late nights making lots of music with this guys amongst many greats.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.
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In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
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I can explain that shot. Arnold moved his wallet to the other pocket.
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Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.
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I have to often read the same sentence over and over before I understand it. And I have to convince myself that what I'm reading is so enjoyable and so exciting and so good for me that it's worth the effort.
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I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans.
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It wasn't that much of a stretch to play a gay demon. I am, you know, both gay and a demon. Don't tell my wife.
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When I first got into wrestling as a kid, I would read all of the wrestling magazines I could get my hands on. There was a satisfaction discovering that there was a whole wrestling world that existed that you didn't see on TV on Saturday morning. There was this idea that there was this stuff going on there that they didn't want us to see.
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It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.
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Stand by those who stand by you.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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Late nights on late nights making lots of music with this guys amongst many greats.
