Jack Benny Quotes

Modesty is my best quality.

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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.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Work
  • Why
  • Kids

• I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Job
  • Write
  • Ever

• Nothing is absolute in security.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Nothing
  • Security
  • Absolute

• Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Year

• I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Think
  • Lose
  • Taste

• I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Society
  • Water

• 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.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Fun
  • Acting
  • Actor

• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Beginning

• 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.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Enemy

• 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.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • History
  • Destiny

• 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.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Progress
  • Discrimination

• 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.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Future
  • Successful

• 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.'

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Star
  • Doing
  • Working

• 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.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Company
  • Year
  • Retail

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• I'm pagan.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Pagan

• 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.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Happy
  • High
  • City

• 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?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Why
  • Give
  • Nobody

• Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Time
  • Character
  • Movie

• If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Wants
  • Turn

• I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Great
  • Best

• Here's the thing about Red Sox fans, or actually just fans from that region, in general: they appreciate the effort. And if you mail it in or if you give 80 percent, even with a win, they'll let you know that's not how you do it. They want - if it's comedian, if it's a musician, bring us your best show.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Best
  • Effort
  • Red

• I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little. I'm not rich, but I can afford a few grand if I have to have my appendix taken out. I can pitch in a little bit.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Rich
  • Operation
  • Appendix

• Modesty is my best quality.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Best
  • Quality
  • Modesty