Jack Benny Quotes
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I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I'm pagan.
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Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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He has the quality you can’t define, call it magic.
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Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.
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I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.
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When we were kids, I remember we'd use lemon in our hair and go into the sun, hoping it would make us blond. Obviously, I have very dark hair and olive skin, and when I was a kid, I wanted to be blond, of course. It never worked.
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Modesty is my best quality.
