Ben Vereen Quotes

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

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• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Fun
  • Water
  • Sports

• Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Different
  • Me
  • Perfect

• Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Job
  • Cricket
  • Committee

• I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Up
  • Rock
  • inspirational

• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.

  

  Haniel Long
  • World
  • Desire
  • Friendship

• I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • Always
  • Singing
  • German

• I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Important
  • Wisdom
  • Insecurity

• I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Theatre

• Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • People
  • American
  • High

• Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Simple

• It was men’s ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men

• Never make unsupportable assumptions about your enemies, Martin. It can be a fatal self-indulgence.

  

  Dan Simmons

• I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing sic me.

  

  Craig Ferguson

• The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Death
  • Drunk

• Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.

  

  Pauline Matthews
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I kind of like not knowing how to do something - it's more exciting.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor

• Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

  

  Jim Yong Kim

• I ultimately want to contribute something toward bettering human relations.

  

  Murray Head
  • Human
  • Relations
  • Ultimately

• I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

  

  Ben Vereen