Ben Jonson Quotes
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I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
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Let us have peace.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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Why do you bother asking, when you know the answer and you also know that you don't intend to believe it?
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It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
