Brendan Benson Quotes

There's a combination of things to survive the road trip. Humor would be key. If everyone has relatively the same sense of humor, then that helps. And things in common, like food, eating.

Brendan Benson

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• The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Women
  • Psychology

• Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Writing
  • Fear
  • Singing

• I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Game

• My customers are successful workingwomen.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Successful
  • Customers

• There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.

  

  Wale
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Free
  • Poverty
  • Capable

• I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Laughed

• I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Way
  • Weird
  • Books

• We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • People
  • Success
  • Sometimes

• My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Different
  • Dad
  • Rock

• For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • People
  • Research
  • Senses

• I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Opportunities
  • Exploring

• I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Family
  • Socialism

• When I was pregnant, I was like, 'I'm pregnant, so I'm allowed to eat everything: bagels with cream cheese for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and I can have pizza for dessert.'

  

  Lake Bell
  • Breakfast
  • Dinner
  • Pizza

• When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Ocean

• Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Problems
  • Resort
  • Imprisonment

• I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

  

  C. J. Anderson
  • People
  • True
  • Religious

• I remember coming in second in a singing competition when I was about 5. I was terrified and didn't win because I apparently looked miserable.

  

  Harry Hadden-Paton
  • Singing competition

• Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Strange

• If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Teacher
  • Sorrows
  • Aspirations

• The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Long
  • Challenges
  • Jobs

• There's a combination of things to survive the road trip. Humor would be key. If everyone has relatively the same sense of humor, then that helps. And things in common, like food, eating.

  

  Brendan Benson
  • Humor
  • Survive
  • Combination