Bennie Thompson Quotes
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.
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Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.
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I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.
