Benjamin David Goodman (Benny Goodman) Quotes
To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
Benjamin David Goodman
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
Obiageli Ezekwesili
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio
More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
Barbara Jordan
I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke
No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
Fisher Stevens
Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
Rand Paul
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
Samuel Adams
I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
Carl Hagelin
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.
Philip Roth
It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.
Kirsten Dunst
I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.
Phillip Lim
I'm here to break boundaries, man. That's all. I'm here to be the first so that the people after me don't have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.
ASAP Rocky
To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
Benjamin David Goodman
