Benny Fine Quotes
In a pre-YouTube world, and in the beginning of the YouTube world, it was more personality-based and centered around very simple content.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they're similar to those violent video games. Characters using deadly weapons. The children follow these movies.
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We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.
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In a pre-YouTube world, and in the beginning of the YouTube world, it was more personality-based and centered around very simple content.
