Benjamin Hoff Quotes
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.
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Oh, I did stop smoking a long time ago.
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My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.
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We're being held to ransom by these pinstripe Scargills...
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Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.
