Ben Hecht Quotes
'It's gonna be just like war!' an editor exults. 'That's it! War! You put that in the lead.
Quotes to Explore
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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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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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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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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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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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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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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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Meditation takes time and dedication, but, for me, it's actually just about closing your eyes and being in that moment.
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The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less.
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If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.
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That boy of 17 who shot himself in my house really ended it for us. And although we occasionally saw each other for the sake of the children, it was the end of our personal relationship.
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'It's gonna be just like war!' an editor exults. 'That's it! War! You put that in the lead.
