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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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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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance.
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I never said I was leaving the entertainment industry.
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I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.
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The phrase 'no burden' largely captured what I wish people believed about themselves.
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When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There were two wonderful editors, Bud Isaacs and Bernie Balmuth, working on the project, and every chance I had, I would go to the editing room to watch and learn from them.
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You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
