Ben Vereen Quotes
The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.
Quotes to Explore
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.
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Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
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The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
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I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
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I don't know if a government bailout will rescue America's auto industry, but I do know that if there is a bailout, it better come with a big, bright stop sign and lots of strings attached.
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Before acting took off, I was a professional kiteboarder training for the world circuit; with a sporting activity, you have to be determined, and it taught me to have a thick skin, which came in use after going to so many auditions and being told 'no.'
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I started really thinking a lot about where does a country go when we stop being able to speak to each other, when a nation stops being able to solve problems because its ideological differences become so deep that it just becomes dysfunctional.
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I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.
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Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.
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It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
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I'm not trying to turn you into a bourgeois, Naomi. If the bed is too luxurious, we can do it on the floor.
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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
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The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.
