Ben Whishaw Quotes

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

Ben Whishaw

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• I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Time
  • Work
  • Game

• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • History
  • Game

• I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Nothing
  • Without
  • My Own

• My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Me
  • Husband
  • Balance

• There's no regrets for me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Something
  • Soothing
  • Hum

• I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Singing
  • Face

• I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Feeling

• I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comfortable

• The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • President
  • Him
  • Lights

• I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Long
  • Control

• The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • God
  • Family

• In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Why
  • Stop

• We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Parents
  • Water

• Music was as natural as breathing in our house.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Music
  • House

• Come, let us mount on the wings of the morning, Flying for joy of the flight, Wild with all longing, now soaring, now staying, Mingling like day and dawn, swinging and swaying, Hung like a cloud in the light: I am immortal! I feel it! I feel it! Love bears me up, love is might!

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Up
  • Light
  • Joy

• I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening; the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke.

  

  John Dalton
  • Men
  • Character
  • Science

• But science does correct itself and that's the reason why science is such a glorious thing for our species.

  

  Nigel Calder
  • Science
  • Species
  • Glorious

• It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

  

  Loren Eiseley
  • Great

• If you were the man of my heart, I’d be your wife, not mistress. I don’t share well.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Wife
  • Mistress
  • Man of My Heart

• Will [Smith] is not like preachy. He's more like lead by example. There's two ways to approach Will. You can follow or you can watch and learn, and I just kind of watched him and learned how he dealt with people, how he dealt with life and how he approaches his own work.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Kind
  • Example
  • Approach

• I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

  

  Ben Whishaw