Benjamin Tennikoff Quotes
A whole bunch of people who love God, love music, and feel like music is a tool that can help other people love God or understand that God loves them.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.
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As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others.
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A whole bunch of people who love God, love music, and feel like music is a tool that can help other people love God or understand that God loves them.
