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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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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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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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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If you feel like you don't have a choice to write it, write it. If you feel like you do have a choice, then move on, because there are so many books in the world.
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Because I've got younger sisters, I want to impart on them the possibility of being a strong woman in whatever role I choose.
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Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.
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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.
