Ben Jonson Quotes
Come my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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People work hard.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
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Astronautics, strictly speaking, will be concerned with voyages to other stars. Remarkably enough, to achieve such feats, we might not even have to leave the earth. It would suffice to accelerate the sun itself to a very high speed and let it drag all its planets with it.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.
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Come my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.
