Benedict Samuel Quotes

I really admire Mark Ruffalo and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Vincent Gallo, for example, who writes and directs and acts in his own films.

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• I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Myself
  • Find

• Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Story
  • Result
  • Recruiting

• I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Reality
  • Blind
  • Patriotism

• I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Win

• I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • Suicide
  • Europe

• As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • You
  • Come
  • Detour

• Oh salty sea, how much of your salt are tears of Portugal!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Sea
  • Tears

• He wanted a home desperately. He was close to the point where he would take a mattress in Hell if the Devil would lend him a pillow.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Home
  • Devil

• The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.

  

  Florence King
  • She
  • Lust
  • Lesbian

• Some old poet's grand imagination is imposed on us as adamantine everlasting truth, and God's own word! Pythagoras says, truly enough, 'A true assertion respecting God, is an assertion of God'; but we may well doubt if there is any example of this in literature.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • God
  • May
  • Truth

• I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare combination, and we should value it highly.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Focus

• The ANC will never die; it will live.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Live
  • Die

• I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Music
  • Speak
  • Classical

• We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Day
  • Values
  • Diversity

• I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Done
  • Think
  • Cleaning

• I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper the XII.

  

  Casper Van Dien
  • Guy
  • Son
  • Generations

• I really admire Mark Ruffalo and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Vincent Gallo, for example, who writes and directs and acts in his own films.

  

  Benedict Samuel