Benji Hughes Quotes
My aunt Maxie had a plastic guitar in her closet, and I started playing that, going nuts on it. I went to stay with my dad, and he saw how much I was into it, and I put my first guitar on layaway. It was a Kay Starter Series guitar and Gorilla amplifier.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.
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I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.
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I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
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Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.
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My aunt Maxie had a plastic guitar in her closet, and I started playing that, going nuts on it. I went to stay with my dad, and he saw how much I was into it, and I put my first guitar on layaway. It was a Kay Starter Series guitar and Gorilla amplifier.
