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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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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Golf during the day, music during the night - it don't get much better.
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If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.
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Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.
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The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.
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There is a conspiracy to do us in. Why?... They see us as a threat to the rest of Singapore.
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My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.
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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.
