Ben Jaffe (Benjamin Jaffe) Quotes

He was really our last connection to a bygone time in the history of New Orleans.

Ben Jaffe

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• I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

  

  Felicia Day
  • America
  • History
  • Fact

• For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Me
  • Being
  • Really

• My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Family
  • School
  • Art

• History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • First
  • Tragedy

• The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • Love
  • She

• Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Work
  • History
  • Free

• I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Special
  • Really
  • Make

• If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

  

  Dan Rather
  • History
  • Seat
  • Aisle

• I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Country
  • History
  • Negative

• Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Men
  • Family
  • History

• I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Pain
  • Really
  • Highway

• I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • History
  • Game
  • Strong

• American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • History
  • Future
  • Black

• History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • History
  • You
  • Attention

• I'm not really in touch with those 'Seinfeld' lads except Jason Alexander.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Really
  • Touch
  • Alexander

• Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Human
  • More

• Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history. To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past - which is to say, only a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments. Each moment it has lived becomes a citation à l'ordre du jour - and that day is Judgement Day.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • History
  • Past
  • Lost

• When we censor our history by disguising our scars, we belittle this process and the struggles our ancestors fought so hard to overcome. America doesn't cower behind political correctness. It defiantly and courageously moves forward, with its history as a reminder of where we have been.

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • America
  • History
  • Political

• You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

  

  Cybill Shepherd
  • Women
  • History

• We've made so much progress in the last 100 years, and I think it's easy for us to think that women in the workplace, women in politics, isn't that big of a deal. And when you step back and look at it from the scope of human history, from thousands and thousands of years - it's a radical idea for a woman to be in charge.

  

  Jennifer Palmieri
  • Women
  • History
  • Progress

• I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.

  

  Brian Austin Green
  • History
  • Rest
  • Couple

• Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.

  

  Anthony Mary Claret
  • Christian
  • Suffering
  • Perfection

• He was really our last connection to a bygone time in the history of New Orleans.

  

  Ben Jaffe
  • History
  • Connection
  • Really