Ben Hardy Quotes

L.A. is big, although Hollywood's not as glamorous as I thought; it's kind of grungy.

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• I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Door
  • Step
  • First Step

• When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Work
  • Best
  • Cool

• I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Help
  • Actors
  • Director

• Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Love
  • House
  • Always

• There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Good
  • Political

• Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.

  

  Babyface
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Better

• Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Value
  • More
  • Philosophers

• I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • World
  • Experience
  • Bad

• Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Said
  • Institutions
  • Signs

• I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Say
  • Lot
  • Had

• Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • People
  • Good
  • Chance

• On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Red
  • Strength

• For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Never
  • Years
  • India

• No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Doubt
  • Politics

• Doubtless he was going to start bragging about being a god. It went with the profile of this sort of lunatic.

  

  Kage Baker
  • God

• What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Society

• How Long Is the Coast of Britain?

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Long

• One’s ears are weary of the voice of the art teacher who sits like the parrot on his perch, learning the jargon of the studios, making but poor copy and calling it criticism. We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of technical knowledge, and their predilection for the wrong end of the stick.

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• I feel that 'Person of Interest' is the same quality as 'Brotherhood.' I think it's one of the smartest network television shows on the air today. The audience is a wide range of individuals.

  

  Kevin Chapman
  • Today
  • Quality
  • Air

• We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

  

  James M. Barrie
  • World

• You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.

  

  Joey Bishop
  • She
  • Mother
  • Hollywood

• I ask why your Omnipotent God does not hold a man back when he is about to commit a sin or offence. It is child’s play for God. Why did He not kill war lords? Why did He not remove the fury of war from their minds? In this way God could have saved humanity from great calamity and horror.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• L.A. is big, although Hollywood's not as glamorous as I thought; it's kind of grungy.

  

  Ben Hardy