Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one I watched again and again and again in the early days of VHS.
Quotes to Explore
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Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.
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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
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The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
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Something like a quarter of the founders that have gone through Excelerate and Techstars are women. I'm incredibly proud of that.
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I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
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You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.
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When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to focus more on the challenges ahead, and so I started at Methodist College Belfast.
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The only tough thing is admitting to my wife how much a certain article of clothing costs.
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The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.
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A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
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You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
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There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
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Twenty minutes compared to never, that's a lot. Our customer, the Central Intelligence Agency, would get very upset if somebody looks in their database.
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We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil. (Actually, of course, a writer may be just as sentimental in laying undue emphasis on sexual crimes as on dying mothers: sentimental, like scientific, is an adjective that relates to method, not to matter.)
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A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.
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Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing.
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In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in Harry Pussy I was listening to more horn players.
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'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is one I watched again and again and again in the early days of VHS.
