Ben Rattray Quotes
There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
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I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.
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A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
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My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
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Every tournament I go to, I'm kind of learning a little bit mentally and on the course.
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There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.
