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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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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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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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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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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Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'
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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
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Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.
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'I'm still glad that we didn't shake their hands. They were whiners and criers. Piss on them.'
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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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.
