Benjamin E. Mays Quotes
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
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Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.
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My favorite thing about being engaged is your partner knowing what you want. For us, we love going out to eat.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
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My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I was the one who took it to the extreme. I was told in Sunday school that you had to accept Jesus into your heart if you didn't want to go to hell. So of course I did that a thousand times. But the catch was you had to mean it with all of your heart.
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Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.
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It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.
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His David Garrick's death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
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'In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose.'
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She supposed she ought to feel impressed that Genar-Hofoen was sticking to his principles in the face of imminent death-and she did feel a little admiration-but mostly she just thought he was being stupid.
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I just don't understand the need to name something 'the best' or more better than something else. Saying one thing is better than another, one performance is better than another performance - there can't be a contest in this area. I don't understand that.
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I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.
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I think a really rich world to live in is where you're thinking in terms of human behavior and human types and not being super literal. In order to see the deeper truth, you need to break out of literal frame of mind.
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It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
