Brendan Benson Quotes
I've always been jealous of people who can tell stories really well in a room with a bunch of people. I've never been good at it because I'm not cocky enough to be like, "Okay, everyone, listen right now to this. I'm going to blow your minds with this joke."Brendan Benson
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
Zach Anner -
Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
Harmony Korine -
Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
Edoardo Ponti -
I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
Young Buck -
We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
Bebe Rexha -
I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
Kabir Bedi
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
Walter Cronkite -
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
Tammy Wynette -
It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .
Marianne Williamson -
Well, it wasn't really a decision on my part although you always hope as an author that a book that goes out of print somehow winds up back in print. These days publishers like to put out-of-print books into e-book form, but I really wanted to do an update.
Bob Colacello -
After all meat is meat. I don't understand why so many people are bithing about it. It's very healthy and contains lots of vitamins
Zach Braff
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I outwit them, and then I outhit them.
Muhammad Ali -
For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
Gabriel Macht -
Awkwardness is when there's a risk of a perception gap between what you mean and what you appear to mean.
Carolyn Hax -
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against the British that the colonists fought for political rights, the true source of the rights of man was clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . . It was self-evident to him that denying these rights was wrong and that he and others must struggle to win what was theirs.
Bill Clinton -
I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.
Nicholas Davies