Ben Dolnick Quotes

During the couple of years it took to write 'At The Bottom of Everything', I decided, on the sort of hopeful whim that occasionally overtakes me, to sign up for piano lessons.

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• You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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• When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.

  

  Becky Lynch
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• I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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• I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.

  

  Pamela Adlon
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• Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

  

  Hank Johnson
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• Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.

  

  Raf Simons
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• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
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• On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

  

  Walter Salles
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• I've been things and seen places.

  

  Mae West
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• I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
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• Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
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• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

  Hamish Bowles
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• There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
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• I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. (pg. 140)

  

  Kingsley Amis
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• I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

  

  Johnny Carson
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  • Food
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• Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
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• Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Sense
  • Wrong
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• We mostly don't get sick. Most often, bacteria are keeping us well.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
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• During the couple of years it took to write 'At The Bottom of Everything', I decided, on the sort of hopeful whim that occasionally overtakes me, to sign up for piano lessons.

  

  Ben Dolnick
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