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 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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Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.
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Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
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Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.
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When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express.
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By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make it a career but didn't know how. It took me a long time to grow into myself, but when my love of writing returned, it did so with an enormous amount of venom. It is now a mainstay in my life.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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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.
