Ben Schnetzer Quotes
I've been incredibly lucky. I know what it's like to be an unemployed actor, to beat the bricks. I've been in the right place at the right time.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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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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My father had very little formal education.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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Obviously, there's so many different types of gay people, but some people don't know that. Some people think we all look and act a certain type of way.
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I will never, ever forget the electricity I felt the first time I listened to the 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - and many times since.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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During challenging times and when impassioned to act, human beings can be capable of miracles.
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I have never been ashamed of calling myself a feminist, and I believe passionately in women's rights.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I know what it's like to be an unemployed actor, to beat the bricks. I've been in the right place at the right time.
