Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner.
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The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.
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I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
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The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.
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Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy its glories.
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I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.
