Benjamin F. Wade Quotes
I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
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I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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A lot of times, I don't just do juice; I do the whole thing blended to keep the fiber.
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My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a fault and boded no ill but thought well enough of themselves to repeat their presences.
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The financial crisis of 2008-09 made for a highly unsatisfying morality tale. It devastated struggling borrowers with weak credit ratings, while leaving the financiers who created exploding monstrosities like synthetic CDOs relatively unscathed.
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I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
