Ben Dolnick Quotes
In the Children's Zoo, Enrichment meant presenting the goats with a trash can smeared with peanut butter or dangling keys at the end of a broomstick in front of the cow. The goats would knock their heads around the inside of the can and emerge giddy, peanut butter drunk.Ben Dolnick
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston -
TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
Gail Porter -
There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
Ian Wace -
There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.
Dakota Fanning -
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso -
I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
Taron Egerton
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
Cameron Diaz -
One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
Beck -
Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
Harmony Korine -
It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
Oliver Tambo -
You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
Felicity Jones
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
Becky Lynch -
Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.
Malin Akerman -
My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.
Ursula Burns -
My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
Kajol -
My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
Gail Collins -
Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.
Yuri Lowenthal
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A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
Jay McInerney -
Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
Randi Weingarten -
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
Mary Augusta Ward -
If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
Mandy Patinkin -
In the Children's Zoo, Enrichment meant presenting the goats with a trash can smeared with peanut butter or dangling keys at the end of a broomstick in front of the cow. The goats would knock their heads around the inside of the can and emerge giddy, peanut butter drunk.
Ben Dolnick