Ben Katchor Quotes
I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.
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I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.
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I love the Internet, but I think you have to only use it in the ways that are good for you. I think there's so much speculation that happens.
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From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.
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My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.
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He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short.
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There are so many artists that have inspired me.
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Once woman is made equal to man, she fancies herself his superior.
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I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
