Benjamin Booker Quotes
There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
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When I came back from filming the 'Chandelier' video, everyone was like, 'So what'd you wear? What did the room look like? How many chandeliers were there?' And I was like, 'Well, I wore a blond wig, a nude leotard, the room was dirty, and there was no chandelier.'
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.
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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
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Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it wasn't available, achievable was because Arafat wouldn't accept it.
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Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.
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The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.
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I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.
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There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.
