Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
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Anyone who has been successful and has knowledge to share is a potential mentor.
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'I Get Around' came on one day. I'd never heard the Beach Boys before. The sound was so fresh to me. That was the first time when I truly was gripped by the power of music. It opened my eyes to the heights that music can achieve.
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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
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My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
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I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
