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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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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Bdelycleon: It is so that you may know only those who nourish you (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
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Life is a puzzle that I feel like we'll never fully put together.
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I grew up on the south side of Chicago in the 1960s, and I think there was a synchronicity of events that inspired me to be an astronaut, and, of course, the backdrop is nothing less than Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. That was a time in our nation where we aspired to great things, and we achieved them.
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I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.
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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.
