Benjamin Bratt Quotes
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
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As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.
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I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.
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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.
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If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.
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My brother and I used to collect comic books in San Francisco.
