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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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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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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If approval was a criterion in this country, nothing would ever get done.
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So when the 1960's came along I was feeling split, schizophrenic. The war, what was happening to America, the brutality of the world. What kind of man am I, sitting at home, reading magazines, going into a frustrated fury about everything-and then going into my studio to adjust a red to a blue.
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One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?
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I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
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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.
