Ben Schott Quotes
I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.
Quotes to Explore
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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
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As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
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We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
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I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
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Class is more important than a game.
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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.
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I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.
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I guess I just wasn't meant to dance.
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I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.
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That's what representative democracy is about, is members going to Washington but coming home and answering the tough questions.
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When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.
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Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
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A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
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Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
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Games are the most social of all things on the web.
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We haven't gotten an indication that it would be worth our while.
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When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.
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We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions... and we need to do it under tight control.
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Our Yes towards life from the very beginning carries within it the Divine No which breaks forth from the antithesis and points away from what now was the thesis to the original and final synthesis. The No is not the last and highest truth, but the call from home which comes in answer to our asking for God in the world.
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I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.
