Ben Jonson Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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I always knew that I wanted to do voiceovers as part of my career. I just kind of didn't expect it to take off the way it did. I couldn't be happier. I love the chance to play so many different characters every day.
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I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.
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Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.
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American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison.... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be an unprejudiced judge. The tale seems to me one of those many books which have profited, very dubiously indeed, by having obtained, in one way of another, the repute of being indecent.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.
