Ben Marcus Quotes

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

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• Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Feel
  • Glamorous
  • Lingerie

• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Things
  • Seriously

• My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mom

• The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Job
  • Write
  • Ever

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Home
  • Education

• I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Done
  • Mean

• You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Problems
  • Face
  • Mature

• People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Me
  • Beauty

• Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Control
  • Give
  • Potential

• I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Curiosity
  • Devotion
  • Less

• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Understand
  • Word
  • Clever

• I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Water
  • Cold

• Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Working
  • Students
  • Succeed

• My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Opportunities

• I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Good
  • Age
  • Good Things

• Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to be fluent in the language of the future.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Future
  • Creativity

• You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Jesus
  • Religious
  • Religion

• When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Fear

• I'm a dedicated father - a hopeless, dedicated father. I mean, I am dork dad. I am just - I love my children. I have kids - you know, Joey's 30-something, and then I have all the way down to 4 years old, believe it or not. At my age, five kids.

  

  Joe Piscopo
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Kids

• Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

  

  Ben Marcus
  • Children