Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
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There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
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My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
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I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.
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Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.
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India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.
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Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.
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With Germany conquered, the Kremlin checkmated, Japan converted, it became easier - safer - to peek around looking for someone to fear... and maybe do something about. Ideally, somebody far away, from a country about which almost nothing was known.
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The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.
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People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.
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I'm a fairly private person.
