Ben Webster Quotes

I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five years. There's no comparison between the two. You hear things in New York you don't hear anywhere else. Unless these guys go out. Quite a few make it out to the Coast. Of course, you can't stay in New York for ever. You have to move.

Ben Webster

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• I didn't know much about golf growing up.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Golf

• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Country
  • Art

• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Fighting

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Small
  • Hand

• I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.

  

  Banks
  • Soul
  • Song
  • Crazy

• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Change
  • Person
  • Awareness

• I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Life
  • Unique
  • My Life

• I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Me
  • Duty
  • Volunteer

• In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Women
  • Remember
  • Strong

• I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Master

• The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Problems

• Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Morning
  • Class
  • Ballet

• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Audience
  • Mirror

• I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Myself
  • Dying
  • Unknown

• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • People
  • Kids
  • Lost

• It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Stupid
  • Said
  • Islam

• I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • School
  • Feeling
  • High School

• Allison Jones, a big casting director out there, was like, 'They're casting 'The Daily Show' right now - you should submit a tape.' I remember leaving school to go shoot an audition.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • School
  • Remember
  • Daily

• I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Life
  • Career
  • Dance

• If I am not moving I get bored very easily.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Moving
  • Bored

• I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five years. There's no comparison between the two. You hear things in New York you don't hear anywhere else. Unless these guys go out. Quite a few make it out to the Coast. Of course, you can't stay in New York for ever. You have to move.

  

  Ben Webster
  • Moving
  • New York