Andre Benjamin Quotes

I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

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• The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Never
  • Race
  • Curse

• If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.

  

  Harold Nicholas
  • Real
  • Black
  • Change

• I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Always
  • Effort
  • Try

• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Today
  • Song

• Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Building
  • Bridges
  • Walls

• Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Like
  • Enjoy
  • Really

• Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • God
  • Human
  • King

• I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Movies

• It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Started

• I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Freedom
  • Creative
  • Someone

• My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Television

• Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.

  

  Laraine Day
  • World
  • Baseball
  • Greatest

• That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Life
  • Younger

• Suddenly, everyone woke up, and everything was moving online. We've got Netflix making original series, CBS placing their network online, and suddenly, everyone's announcing some kind of digital network for serving their content online.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Up
  • Moving

• My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Country
  • Change
  • Thought

• I hate formal stuff. I love looking like a doll and all that stuff and playing dress up, but when I'm home, sweat pants, t-shirt. When I'm in the studio, sweat pants, t-shirt.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Home
  • Hate

• If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Together
  • Single

• When you look like I do, it's hard to get a table for one at Chuck E Cheese.

  

  Zach Galifianakis

• I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

  

  Andre Benjamin
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