Benjamin Walker Quotes
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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I was an English major in college!
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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Actually I dance really well on the floor.
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When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under the name The Valentinos. I remember Sam Cooke saying, 'I want you to go in there with James Brown. I couldn't be as hard on you as James Brown would be.' But we came out marching like soldiers.
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President-elect Donald Trump says he's looking for a simple plan for defeating ISIS within his first 30 days of taking office. But even as ISIS has suffered setbacks in Iraq and Syria, its violent ideology continues to spread.
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I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.
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It's President Barack Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're going to default.
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I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm gone. Just please don't ask me to take it seriously.
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You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
