Brendan Benson Quotes
The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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I've been embracing gray hair since... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.
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I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.
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It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.
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Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it.
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I think the reason you use an actor is if they are right for the role. Most of the high-profile stars tend to be good actors. That's probably what led to their fame. So if they are right for the movie, you can certainly use them. But I don't want to, not at all. Stardom and Hollywood overpower the ideas and the film.
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I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.
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I am partial to a cartwheel or two. It's the way to go; I'll be doing them in my 50s, hopefully.
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The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?
