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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • World
  • Language
  • Natural

• 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.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Way
  • Religion
  • Problems

• I was an English major in college!

  

  Maggie Siff
  • College
  • English
  • Major

• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• 'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Family
  • Kind
  • Guilty

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • American
  • Man

• I was authorized to do everything that I did.

  

  Oliver North
  • Everything
  • Did
  • Authorized

• 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.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • War
  • Philosophy

• 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.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Work
  • Always
  • Cinema

• The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Know
  • Cancer
  • Need

• As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Good
  • Entrepreneur
  • News

• 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.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Best
  • Red
  • Circle

• I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • World
  • Best
  • Never

• I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • English
  • Degree
  • Academic

• It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Goal
  • Famous
  • Actor

• 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.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Me
  • College

• It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Job
  • Never
  • Finish

• If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Morals
  • Invent
  • Storytellers

• The room is the most important thing about recording.

  

  Adrian Smith Iron Maiden
  • Important

• And now we rise And we are everywhere.

  

  Nick Drake
  • Rise
  • Everywhere

• I think that the lady who is waiting on me at the local diner, who has kids in school and the mouths to feed, I think she probably has as nice a life as I have. And she only wants to improve her life, her lifestyle.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Life
  • School
  • She

• In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Child
  • Model
  • Information

• You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

  

  Benjamin Walker
  • School
  • History
  • Feeling