Ben Daniels Quotes
I don't think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I'm quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. I'm certainly not the quiet reflective type.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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A lot of respect to people who do theatre, but I wouldn't make a good theatre actor is what I feel.
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I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.
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Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.
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Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.
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I only worked with people that I musically identify with. I typically chose songs they played for me, but in some instances I told some of the producers how a certain song should sound. Some songs were co-written by applying lyrics I had prepared over top of one of their old instrumentals or simply through improvisation. I wrote all the lyrics and was there during every production process, checking out every sound. However, most of the music was composed by the artists themselves. Most were usually very surprised at how their songs sounded with vocals! C.H.I.F.F.R.E. did the main production very well and we both wanted to try and achieve a roots-y electronic music sound, a little raw and noisy, but not too digital. I wanted a warm sound that left space for intimacy.
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I don't think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I'm quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. I'm certainly not the quiet reflective type.
