Ben Schott Quotes
I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.
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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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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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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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As far as actresses go, I love Meryl Streep.
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BMX is never over until the finish line, and I am always trying to challenge myself for that world stage.
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Many people think I am an idiot. I think I am a genius.
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I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
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Today the experience is okay not great for downloading.
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You don't just become a success overnight.
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I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.
