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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And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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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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Being a grandparent doesn't interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they're your own, but I'm not interested in other people's. It's something you tolerate because they are yours.
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.
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Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.
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My wife sent me a Valentine card that said, "Take my heart, take my lips, take my soul." That's just like her. She kept the good parts for herself.
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Late nights on late nights making lots of music with this guys amongst many greats.
