David Bennun Quotes
There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself as a more profound and worthy recipient than, for instance, any of the brilliant Motown or girl-group lyricists who are more likely to be awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry than for literature. Whether there is more truth and humanity in his best lyrics than in Abba's, or less, is unquantifiable, and it would be meretricious to attempt such a calculation in contesting an argument he has been dragged into.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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Belief is thought at rest.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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If you never budge, don't expect a push.
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Women's bodies have become a real battleground for politics.
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I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died eight times in my childhood. He had eight heart attacks.
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I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.
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I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.
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I love yoga, but the namaste thing only takes you so far.
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I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
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My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.
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The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires.
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What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.
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An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.
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There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself as a more profound and worthy recipient than, for instance, any of the brilliant Motown or girl-group lyricists who are more likely to be awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry than for literature. Whether there is more truth and humanity in his best lyrics than in Abba's, or less, is unquantifiable, and it would be meretricious to attempt such a calculation in contesting an argument he has been dragged into.
