Benedict Wong Quotes
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get straight. Needless to say, it is even harder for non-Jews.
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Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
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To me, these kind of everyday miseries act as a fatal disqualifier. My sunniest beliefs are basically contingent on the fact that my child is not dying of cancer right now.
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Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.
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People call me Benny. And as long as they put Benedict on my paycheck, I don't care.
