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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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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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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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
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Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.
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A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.
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Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.
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Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
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A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!
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At the very least, one would imagine being an openly anarchist professor would mean challenging the way universities are run-and I don’t mean by demanding an anarchist studies department, either-and that, of course, is going to get one in far more trouble than anything one could ever write.
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I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.
