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.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Attention
  • Talk

• I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Head

• 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.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Great
  • Real
  • Space

• 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.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Good
  • You
  • Nothing

• Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Life
  • Humanity
  • Defeat

• I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Always
  • Stage
  • Sense

• Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • American
  • Dream
  • Moving

• 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.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • May
  • Challenge

• How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Confidence

• Everyone hopes to get a fall slot, but I'm just happy to get on the air.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Happy
  • Fall
  • Air

• 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.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • Heart
  • High

• Golf during the day, music during the night - it don't get much better.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Music
  • Night
  • Golf

• A community of free men cannot exist if its spiritual base is not solely law.

  

  Jacques Maritain
  • Men
  • Free
  • Law

• Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.

  

  Richard Kern
  • Mystery
  • Ran

• I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Knowledge
  • Movies
  • Legacy

• We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better.

  

  Carol Matas
  • World
  • Trying
  • Hate

• Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

  

  Benjamin Booker