Ben Zobrist Quotes

The best things happen when you're not overthinking it.

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• A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Money
  • Food
  • Fly

• I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Food
  • Language

• The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Serious
  • Journalism

• Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Game
  • Free
  • Difference

• You can't live your life through your children.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Call
  • Temper
  • Abusive

• The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Business
  • Political

• The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • People
  • Game
  • Given

• My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

  

  Candace Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Makeup

• My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • You
  • Like
  • Feel

• I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • City
  • Like
  • Moscow

• Awards are for young people. They just are.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Young
  • Awards

• If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• I think of myself as an actor and not a movie star. I like doing movies; I enjoy it. But, essentially, I'm a theater actor. That's the only place I feel like I actually am a star. In the theater, I can put people in the seats and sell tickets.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• All I know is that I'm tired of being clever Everybody's clever these days Take a win Take a fall I never wanted your love But I needed it all…

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fall
  • Tired
  • Clever

• Repression can only go up to a point. When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and the police, have been proved time and time again in history to have turned their guns on their masters.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Up
  • Time
  • History

• O Mirth and Innocence! O milk and water! Ye happy mixtures of more happy days.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Happy
  • Water

• Striped shirts and printed shorts, jeans, and trousers are all items I buy and wear a lot in my private life.

  

  Liu Wen
  • Life

• I see this fella built like a barn door... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something.

  

  John Prescott
  • Past
  • Door

• By forbidding Jews to destroy their hair, the Bible warns them away from seeking the siren song of eternal youth. By encouraging Jews to grow beards, it reminds them that they will not be young forever, that they must prepare the ground for those who come after, just as their fathers did for them.

  

  Meir Soloveichik
  • Song
  • Hair
  • Forever

• Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Public
  • Sides

• I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Power
  • Political
  • Politician

• The best things happen when you're not overthinking it.

  

  Ben Zobrist