Andre Benjamin Quotes

I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like.

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• If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Genius
  • Just
  • Wait

• You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Suggestions

• I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Important
  • Think
  • Food

• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Art
  • Movement
  • Museum

• I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Fun
  • Myself

• We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Live
  • Family
  • Guy

• A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.

  

  Patricia Rae
  • Family
  • You
  • Union

• Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

  

  Karl Marx
  • World
  • Revolution
  • Win

• The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • End
  • Satan
  • Pledge

• I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Kind
  • Theater
  • Contradiction

• I am no prophet - and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,And in short, I was afraid.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Great
  • Greatness

• I read myths and fairy tales and books about them a great deal now, but I very seldom read novels. I find modern novels bore me. I can read Tolstoy and the Russians, but mostly I read comparative mythology and comparative religion. I need matter to carry with me.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Great

• ...the dark brought out the prostitutes, Malay divorcees mostly, quietly moving from light to light, gaudy and graceful, like other of night’s creatures.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Night
  • Light
  • Moving

• There’s a joy without canker or cark,There’s a pleasure eternally new,’T is to gloat on the glaze and the markOf china that’s ancient and blue.

  

  Andrew Lang
  • Joy
  • Blue

• To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. laughter The lady's not for turning.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Waiting
  • Laughter

• The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

  

  Matt Cohler
  • Up
  • Family
  • Light

• The 1973 team is real special. I had never coached against Bear Bryant. Alabama had never played Notre Dame. It was North against South; the Catholics against the Baptists; both teams were undefeated, and everything was on the line.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Real
  • Team

• You see a lot of talented people, but you usually don't see talented people who, behind the scenes, know how to conduct themselves on a higher level.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People

• The image of keys (plural) perhaps suggests not so much the porter, who controls admission to the house, as the steward, who regulates its administration (Is 22:22, in conjunction with 22:15). The issue then is not that of admission to the church (which is not what the kingdom of heaven means; see pp. 45-47) but an authority derived from a delegation of God's sovereignty.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Church
  • Keys
  • Admission

• Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Energy
  • Fate

• On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Daughter
  • My Life
  • Relief

• We have asked the government to start some discussions with us about how we can operate an unfiltered search engine in China, and failing that, we will have to shut it down, but - or do something else.

  

  David Drummond
  • Search

• I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like.

  

  Andre Benjamin