David Bennun Quotes

Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself. The same is true of literature, but nobody feels compelled to toss Philip Roth a grammy just to prove it.

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• I bought a girl roses once.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Girl
  • Once
  • Roses

• I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Eye
  • Color

• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Government
  • Sea
  • Process

• In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Freedom
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Poet

• As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.

  

  Adam Green
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Speak

• I have never seen homosexual chicken or turkey.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Seen
  • Chicken
  • Turkey

• And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Country
  • Boys
  • Here

• The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.

  

  Ramakrishna

• EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.1

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Time

• Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

  

  Dick York
  • Time
  • Theatre

• Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they're inherently subjective. And that's the danger, and I think as long as we're aware of it and can push back against it, I don't think that these two views are necessarily incompatible.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Long
  • Thoughts

• Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Life
  • Learning

• If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

  

  David Viscott
  • Up
  • Courage

• One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress.

  

  Lily Donaldson
  • Black

• For most normal people, deadlifts stretch your hamstrings, but in my case, it tightened them, because I was already very flexible.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • People

• I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The one thing that is distinctive about America historically has been the fact that we are all able to engage in public discourse without the political becoming personal.

  

  Ajit Pai
  • America
  • Political

• This dumb ox will fill the world with his bellowing.

  

  Albertus Magnus
  • World
  • Ox
  • Bellowing

• My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths.

  

  Andy Rourke The Smiths
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a history of American literature - I did that for seven or eight years. In the course of that work, my interest in Faulkner deepened and has been sustained ever since.

  

  David Milch
  • Work
  • American
  • History

• Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself. The same is true of literature, but nobody feels compelled to toss Philip Roth a grammy just to prove it.

  

  David Bennun
  • Literature
  • Prove
  • Grammy