Ben Jaffe (Benjamin Jaffe) Quotes
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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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.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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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.
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I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
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If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
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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.
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Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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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.
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I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
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Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.
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In today's America He (Jesus) has moved from the central figure of world history to source material for late-night comics and pundits who would not dare treat other religious leaders with such disrespect.
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The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.
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We knew we wanted to have our own tone for the show. And then the big instrument that actually we came up with was the cello. It has a big range. It can play really low. It can play high. And it has a dark sound, and 'Game Of Thrones' is obviously - it's a dark show, and the cello became the featured instrument.
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A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
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I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.
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He was really our last connection to a bygone time in the history of New Orleans.
