Benjamin Booker Quotes
I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.
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Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.
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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.
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My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.
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Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.
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How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
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Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
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Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.
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Everyone hopes to get a fall slot, but I'm just happy to get on the air.
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If one of you pass out and go to the emergency room, the hospital has to see you. But when you go to the emergency room, you've had a stroke, or you've had a heart attack. If you had preventative medicine, you could maybe be taking your high blood pressure medicine so you wouldn't have a stroke and cut down the costs.
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Golf during the day, music during the night - it don't get much better.
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So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.
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I think I first encountered Ebola from the movie 'Outbreak.' Then there was the book 'The Hot Zone.' It's the type of thing you either read and say, 'Oh wow, that's terrifying,' or you read it and say, 'Oh wow, I want to do that.' I read it and said, 'Oh wow, I want do that.'
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Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
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In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much.
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I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.
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I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.
