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.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Home
  • Win
  • Changes

• I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • History
  • Proud
  • Bible

• At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • People
  • Years
  • Old

• When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

  

  T-Pain
  • Song
  • Say
  • Finish

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Fake
  • Talking

• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Like
  • Slavery
  • Secrets

• 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.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Person

• Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Wish
  • Sometimes
  • I Wish

• My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Child
  • Movies
  • Hollywood

• 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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Story

• People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• 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.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• 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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Experience
  • Present
  • Childhood

• 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.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Fall

• Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Change
  • Shoes
  • Without

• My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

  

  Sadaharu Oh
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Career

• Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Want
  • Gossip

• The outlines and form of any part of a body in light and shade are indistinct in the shadows and in the high lights; but in the portions between the light and the shadows they are highly conspicuous.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • High
  • Light

• If I change in any way, I'm not going to be the same player.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Player

• Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I'm also a huge folk music fan - Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Up
  • World
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Benjamin Tennikoff Hillsong United
  • Music
  • Help
  • Love God