Ben Zobrist Quotes
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The world needs some help.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
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I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.
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I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.
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Trump is an anathema to America's democracy and values.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff.
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The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.
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I do believe that the president of Venezuela is really, really destroying his own country, economically, politically.
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I'm not a cleanup hitter. I'm just batting fourth.
