George de Benneville Quotes
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
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Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn't speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.
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I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.
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I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.
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No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
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John Kenneth Galbraith doesn't get enough praise. The Affluent Society is a great insight, and has become so much a part of our understanding of contemporary capitalism that we forget where it began. It's like reading Hamlet and deciding it's full of quotations.
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Learning is experience understood in tranquility.
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Honor the ocean of love.
