Brendan Benson Quotes

Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous.

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• I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Queen

• The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Real
  • Power
  • Worry

• All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Life
  • School
  • Book

• I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Balance
  • Moderation

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Energy

• Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • God
  • Women
  • She

• The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Wealth
  • Key
  • U.S.

• I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• Making sounds that literally no one has ever heard before because the software and the technology's never been there, and pairing that with great songwriting, then that's what's exciting for me. That's what I wanna do.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Software

• And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to make a change in the country, and I think we did change this country. And I think we will continue to, and I know that my father is not going to stop fighting.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Country
  • Father
  • Change

• We will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Study

• The outline of our lives, like the candles flame, is continuously coaxed in new directions by a variety of random events that, along with our responses to them, determine our fate.

  

  Leonard Mlodinow
  • Fate
  • Random

• Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • Organization

• I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Character

• I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • People

• As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Live
  • Forever

• I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

  

  Adele
  • Personality
  • Big
  • Loud

• I slept well that night because someone had been kind to me.

  

  Amber Dermont
  • Night
  • Kind
  • Slept

• For magazines seeking to extend their reach into podcasting, half the battle is finding members of staff who don't sound like the kind of people you wouldn't care to be stuck in a lift with.

  

  David Hepworth
  • People

• I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Life
  • School
  • Hate

• You worked your paper route, mowed the lawn, then played golf all day.

  

  Fred Funk
  • Golf

• Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous.

  

  Brendan Benson
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  • Stupid
  • Story