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.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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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.
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I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
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[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.
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Life doesn't come at you. It comes from you.
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Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.
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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.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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There is always some element of competition. As and when more players show interest in a space, it endorses increasing demand. I have never taken competition as a treat.
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It's been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it's personally, academically, or athletically.
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I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
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L.A. is such a different place. I miss New York so much. I almost teared up when I came back and wanted a Guinness and realized I could drink it and take a cab home. I remembered that I could be a functional alcoholic in New York, like I used to be!
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They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.
