Benjamin David Goodman (Benny Goodman) Quotes
After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.
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I learned a long time ago to be honest when I'm talking to other artists. Up-and-coming artists used to come and say something, they would have a demo reel, and I would try to tell them the truth. I don't go up and say something unless I really feel it.
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It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes on, when people are always daydreaming of the kind of place in which they would like to live, yet never making the place where they do live into anything artistically satisfying to them. Always to dream of a cottage by a brook while never doing anything to the stuffy house in the city is to waste creativity in this very basic area, and to hinder future creativity by not allowing it to grow and develop through use.
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After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
