Benjamin Percy Quotes
I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up at 6, pack lunches, hustle the kids off to school, then brew a pot of coffee and head downstairs to the dungeon, as I call it: my cobwebby office in the basement.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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The fact of the matter is, this country is not going to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. What are we supposed to do with them? What are we supposed to do with these kids?
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product.
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London was my first Olympics, but I tried for three beforehand. I was measured for the Olympic uniform three times before London, and I finally made the team. It was a big deal, and it was quite emotional, which is probably one of the reasons I didn't perform at my best.
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I've felt like an outsider. I've had to struggle.
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I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up at 6, pack lunches, hustle the kids off to school, then brew a pot of coffee and head downstairs to the dungeon, as I call it: my cobwebby office in the basement.
