Ben Dolnick Quotes

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Ben Dolnick

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• My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Focus
  • Worry
  • Personality

• In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Way
  • Become
  • Reputation

• I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Time
  • Men
  • Want

• I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • Music
  • School

• I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Hope
  • Fashion

• Fashion is always seen as somewhat frivolous and self-indulgent. And I think people on the inside maybe don't see or understand how exciting and diverse a business it is.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Business
  • Fashion

• Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Moving
  • Start
  • Gym

• I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Interviews

• Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • American
  • Freedom
  • System

• Never let anybody get you down. Never give in to people who say nasty things on the Internet. Work to represent women in the best way possible because, even though respect and equality for women has progressed over time, it's still not in the place that it should be.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Shows
  • Democrats
  • Poll

• For me, a wake-up playlist completely depends on what mood I'm in. If I need to get into action pretty quick, it will be between Beyonce and Miles Davis. I'm a massive Beyonce fan, and all of her anthems will do it for me. And Miles Davis, because I grew up hearing his music because my dad played it a lot, so that will always be special to me.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Mood

• I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• There are three fountains In the mountain of roses, There is a Caer of defence Under the ocean’s wave. Illusive greeter, What is the porter’s name?

  

  Taliesin
  • Ocean
  • Mountain

• Gcc is crap.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• He who died at Azan sendsThis to comfort all his friends:-Faithful friends! It lies I knowPale and white and cold as snow;And ye say, 'Abdallah’s dead!'Weeping at the feet and head.I can see your falling tears,I can hear your sighs and prayers;Yet I smile and whisper this:I am not the thing you kiss.Cease your tears and let it lie;It was mine-it is not I.

  

  Edwin Arnold
  • Friends
  • Lies
  • Cold

• What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Life
  • Live
  • Beautiful

• Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

  

  James Martineau
  • God

• Some of the happiest times I ever saw my dad was times when I was with him in the casinos, and he had a good night.

  

  James Packer
  • Good
  • Night
  • Dad

• It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.

  

  Neil Cavuto
  • Time
  • Good
  • Age

• In order to generate extraordinary profits, you must have a focus that is beyond profits. You need to focus on how you serve your clients.

  

  Punit Renjen
  • Focus

• There are times and moments and there will be one in this playoffs where he will do the offensive work. He's going to be on fire and feeling the ability to go out there and shoot anytime, any place. Right now, I think he's just moving the ball well and doing the right things for us.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Moments

• Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Attention
  • Significant
  • Contribution

• A short-story collection is harder to formulate pithy sentences about.

  

  Ben Dolnick