Ben Mezrich Quotes
People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to Ron Harwood about making a movie. So, you know Tom and Albert Finney had been friends since the beginning of their career as they became stars around the same time - Tom always reminds me that Albert was first with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and then Tom with The Long Distance Runner.
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'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.
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I'm a former lefty, I understand how vicious these people are, I understand that they feel they have the right to control the sandbox, and I am trying to orchestrate media that isn't just out there to push the right-of-center Libertarian narrative, I'm out there to destroy the false order, the false control that the left has in controlling the mainstream media in America.
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The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
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People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.
