Benedict Samuel Quotes

I want to write more and direct more, but only so I can keep practising my craft and be involved in the projects that really interest me.

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• Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Last
  • Patriotism
  • Refuge

• Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Culture
  • Rich
  • Tradition

• I'm on Tumblr all the time.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Tumblr

• I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • Real
  • My Life

• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mother
  • Fight
  • Nurse

• You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Power
  • Woman
  • Exercise

• 'I can’t keep giving my will into other people hands no more, ain’t? I have to decide what I want to do for myself.' No answer. It wasn’t going to tell her.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • People
  • Giving

• No time to see, in broad daylight,Streams full of stars, like skies at night.No time to turn at Beauty's glance,And watch her feet, how they can dance.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Night
  • Dance

• Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Words
  • Kindness
  • Japanese

• I was kind of an obnoxious kid. I would imitate Celine Dion. I would jump around and belt to the rafters and do the accent and everything.

  

  Kimiko Glenn
  • Jump

• I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • Life
  • Music

• When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.

  

  James Carville
  • Football
  • Boy
  • Boxing

• My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs... I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural.

  

  Emily Procter
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • House

• The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying.

  

  Maximilian Schell
  • War
  • Together
  • Interesting

• Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

  

  Ahmet Davutoglu
  • Beginning

• It's a little less stressful as a support act, because the headliner carries the majority of the weight. But as a headliner, we get to play a little bit longer.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Support

• Around New York City, samples collected at dozens of beaches or piers have detected the types of bacteria and other pollutants tied to sewage overflows. Though the city's drinking water comes from upstate reservoirs, environmentalists say untreated excrement and other waste in the city's waterways pose serious health risks.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • City
  • Health
  • Water

• Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.

  

  James Carville
  • Business
  • Strong

• When you hear "Seinfield," no one says, "the Jewish comic." You talk about Cedric the Entertainer, you don't say, "African American comedian Cedric the Entertainer." Even Margaret Cho - who's like one of three Korean performers out there - no one refers to her like that. They say, "It's Margaret Cho."

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • American
  • Three
  • Comedian

• I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • School
  • High
  • Wish

• I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
  • Together
  • Want

• I want to write more and direct more, but only so I can keep practising my craft and be involved in the projects that really interest me.

  

  Benedict Samuel