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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The presence of a bed changes the way people interact.
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Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
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There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?
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'Hedwig' is not autobiographical, but what she goes through is clearly a big metaphor. She doesn't want to be what she is, but she comes to an understanding that what happened to her has actually made her whole.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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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.
