Ben Schwartz Quotes
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly. Then when I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.
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We're told all the time to give up everything for love. That's the Western notion of what love is - love conquers all, all you need is love. And there are so many different kinds of outside, conflicting pressures on women.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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I still love 'All Right Now,' strangely enough. But then that's probably because I didn't play it for some twenty years.
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I voted for Obama.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.
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Exercise and eat healthy foods in moderation. I am a vegetarian but that is a personal choice.
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At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly. Then when I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it.
