Benedict Samuel Quotes
You don't know when things are going to happen, so I don't think you should be waiting around for them, so I'm interested in making stuff and being in that stuff - that's what my focus is.
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
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My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
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I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
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I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
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I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
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I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
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The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.
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In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
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Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow....
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Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.
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You don't know when things are going to happen, so I don't think you should be waiting around for them, so I'm interested in making stuff and being in that stuff - that's what my focus is.
