Benny Green Quotes

I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.

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• I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.

  

  Young Thug
  • Long
  • Why
  • Think

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Family
  • American
  • Healthy

• For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Father
  • Years
  • Railroad

• We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60.

  

  Iman
  • Friends
  • New
  • Loved

• My music is a luxury.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Music
  • Luxury

• No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Man
  • Pleasures
  • Sane

• I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Small
  • Me
  • Ideas

• I think the Brexit vote in Great Britain informing this populist movement of nationalism is kind of a global thing, and I think it's no particular political party's fault. People have been left behind, and in America, we're used to going forward. It's always like we're going to be better; the next generation's going to be better.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Great
  • America

• I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Business
  • Remember

• A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • History
  • Small
  • Faith

• I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Men
  • Women
  • Care

• Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Culture
  • Law
  • Democracy

• The idea that people are watching me now is a bit unnerving, but I suppose it comes with the territory. It is, perhaps, the modern side of celebrity.

  

  David Harewood
  • People
  • Celebrity

• One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Great
  • Long
  • American

• I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.

  

  Andre Holland
  • Real
  • History
  • Opinion

• But I came from a conservative Republican background.

  

  Christopher Meloni

• I want to do stuff like 'Lady Bird.' I want people to say, 'She told amazing stories.'

  

  Letitia Wright
  • People
  • She
  • Amazing

• I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I didn't even think for a second I could do it, and then I saw Babes in Toyland, and all that changed.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill

• I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.

  

  Benny Green