Ben Jaffe (Benjamin Jaffe) Quotes

Before the storm we were musical ambassadors of New Orleans, and now we've become cultural ambassadors for the faith of post-Katrina renewal.

Ben Jaffe

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• My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Acting

• When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • She
  • Best

• When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Want
  • Me
  • Car

• The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Human
  • Problems
  • Race

• If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Die
  • Taken

• I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Live
  • Car
  • Better

• The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Earth
  • Best
  • Place

• My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Look
  • Cooking

• The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.

  

  Harold Russell
  • Hands
  • More
  • Roll

• Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Good
  • Today
  • Growth

• As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Child

• Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.

  

  Yael Naim
  • World
  • Culture
  • Freedom

• There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Up
  • Think
  • Energy

• Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Power
  • Man
  • How

• My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Pregnant

• Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Together
  • Partner
  • Expectations

• If America wants to lead the world, it needs to make sure new ideas can get to market. More opportunity will birth more companies that create more jobs.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • World
  • America
  • Opportunity

• Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my car every day in my senior year. I went to ballet. I was a ballerina, so I was very focused on that. You kind of have to be. That was two-thirds of my week, going to ballet class.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Better
  • Theory
  • Before

• Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Style

• I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Band
  • Feels
  • Feminist

• Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.

  

  Rumi
  • See
  • Face
  • Before

• People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Fun
  • Being
  • Before

• Before the storm we were musical ambassadors of New Orleans, and now we've become cultural ambassadors for the faith of post-Katrina renewal.

  

  Ben Jaffe
  • Musical
  • Before
  • Cultural