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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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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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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My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
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President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.
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Elvis was a great guy. We'd just horse around together or go to see a movie. He drove me around Graceland in a golf cart. He was a fan of our music and was curious about how I sounded so black.
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My sisters, let's tell 'fashion' we love Allah more!
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
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I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
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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.
