Benjamin Cohen Quotes
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
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There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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I've always been very fond of animals.
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I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
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I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
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I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
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Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
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Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
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Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
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I'm not a household name; I'm just a household name to guitar freaks.
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I start off on the canvas and, little by little, it imposes its own solution. But that solution is not easy to find.
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I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
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I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one.
