Ben Dolnick Quotes
Sometimes I think there ought to be a coat of arms for all of us who listen to Oberst's band Bright Eyes past the age of twenty-six. 'With Love and Shame,' the motto would read. The handwriting would be the cramped and tortured scribble of a high school freshman.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.
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I love single life! Why would it be boring? I mean, I get to travel around and have loads of girls screaming at me, so it's definitely not boring. However, it can get lonely on the road, but I'm sorted I've got good people around me.
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.
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I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.
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I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
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The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.
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My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.
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I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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Sometimes I think there ought to be a coat of arms for all of us who listen to Oberst's band Bright Eyes past the age of twenty-six. 'With Love and Shame,' the motto would read. The handwriting would be the cramped and tortured scribble of a high school freshman.
