Benjamin David Goodman (Benny Goodman) Quotes

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

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• What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.

  

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• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

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• Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.

  

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• It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

  

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• I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.

  

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• The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

  

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• It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

  

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• I so never went through a bad-girl period.

  

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• I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

  

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• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

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• Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.

  

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• You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.

  

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• It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

  

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• And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

  

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• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

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• I'd like to be curvier.

  

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• I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

  

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• My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.

  

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• To sit idly, not doing, merely experiencing, comes hard to a primate.

  

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• When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

  

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• As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

  

  Benjamin David Goodman
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