Ben Zobrist Quotes

I spent so many years shuffled around. I'm used to it and can deal with it.

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• The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Play
  • Doing

• Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Know
  • Flying
  • Accomplishment

• I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • World
  • Children
  • Better

• Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Eighty

• I do suspect that this world is hell.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • World
  • Hell
  • Suspect

• We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Human
  • Understand
  • See

• I still don't know what Episcopalian means.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Means
  • Still

• Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Movie
  • Feel
  • Stars

• It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Game
  • Me

• The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Song
  • You

• After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Family
  • Myself

• My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Dad

• People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • World
  • Great
  • Gift

• From here, our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Independent
  • March

• Whatever the ultimate fate of my country, my love for you remains, and will remain, undiminished. My non-violence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it. It is that love which has prompted my appeal to you.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Country
  • Small
  • Violence

• 'Heal the Wound, Cure the illness, but let the Dying spirit go'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Dying

• Justice doesn’t exist! We did worse things. Nobody deserves to go to that place, Alec said. Anyway, weren’t you Christian types supposed to forgive everybody?I will shed no tears for that bastard’s damnation, said Nicholas stonily.No wonder nobody’s left that believes in your stupid religion, said Alec.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Christian
  • Justice
  • Wonder

• If wishes were stories, beggars would read...

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Wishes

• The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

  

  Brendan Behan
  • World
  • Important

• I came home for ever!

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Home

• The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Faith
  • Simple
  • Doubt

• There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched everything, from the horror to the European art-house.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Good
  • School
  • Art

• I spent so many years shuffled around. I'm used to it and can deal with it.

  

  Ben Zobrist