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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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 grew up in Mumbai.
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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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Tone of voice is more crucial than words.
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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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We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.
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You can't think about the past anymore.
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It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.
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It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
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I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.
