Ben Hecht Quotes
'It's gonna be just like war!' an editor exults. 'That's it! War! You put that in the lead.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.
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Fighting Manny Pacquiao in the future - there's possibilities it could happen. But whatever happens in the future happens in the future.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I think it's disingenuous for people to talk in their living rooms about government collapsing, the possibility of total anarchy, but when someone says it in public, it's so terrifying they have to persecute that person.
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Concrete concepts are not necessarily the simplest ones. A novice best remembers 'being at' a concert. The amateur remembers more of what it 'sounded like.' Only the professional remembers the music itself, timbres, tones and textures.
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'It's gonna be just like war!' an editor exults. 'That's it! War! You put that in the lead.
