Ben Jaffe (Benjamin Jaffe) Quotes

They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.

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• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • World
  • Men
  • Woman

• Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Makes
  • Cross
  • Carelessness

• I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Effort
  • Find
  • Too Much

• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Opinion
  • Same
  • Will

• Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Greed
  • Idiot
  • Newspaper

• I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Ambition
  • Shakespeare

• I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • World
  • America
  • Hope

• When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Mother

• What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

  

  Paracelsus
  • Cure
  • Physician
  • Origin

• My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Design
  • Dress
  • Uniform

• I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Fun
  • Hockey

• Our trials and our times of pain get the most recognition, but 'Straight Outta Compton' speaks to triumph. When it's doubtful, when nobody is on your side, when your back is against the wall, you triumph and make it through. Showing growth through movies promotes growth.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Pain
  • Growth
  • Wall

• To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.

  

  Bernadine Dohrn
  • Children

• [Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Done
  • Art
  • Book

• Life doesn't come at you. It comes from you.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life

• Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • World
  • God
  • Future

• The Olympics is a daunting thing. We have to face the fact that (by doing it this way) we'll cut our players short a little bit.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Players
  • Short
  • Olympics

• 'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George Washington had a copy of the book on his desk when signing the U.S. Constitution.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • Book
  • Political

• A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.

  

  Hector Berlioz
  • Consciousness
  • Feeble Mind

• Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Live
  • Action
  • Jazz

• They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.

  

  Ben Jaffe
  • Players
  • Jazz
  • Carpenters