Benny Green Quotes

No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989?

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• Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • You
  • Kind
  • Seeing

• I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Life
  • Career
  • Dance

• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Life
  • Different
  • Why

• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Winning
  • Moment
  • Luck

• I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Know
  • Written
  • Arts

• Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Long
  • School
  • Performance

• I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Fiction
  • Fan
  • Historical

• Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Men
  • Moon
  • Comparison

• Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Work
  • Birthday

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

  

  Iman
  • Political
  • Science
  • Fashion

• It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Yourself
  • Individual

• There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Government
  • Trust

• In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Real
  • You

• Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Feeling

• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Man
  • Political
  • Speech

• I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.

  

  Anne Fortier
  • Up
  • Writing

• I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Wonderful

• Republicans are being counseled to move the party to the left, but in my experience, those who advocate more liberal policies for the GOP are wrongheaded or Democrats, or both.

  

  Liz Cheney
  • Experience
  • Party
  • Moving

• We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Joy
  • Christian

• A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

  

  Jean Genet
  • Time
  • Long
  • Dream

• No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989?

  

  Benny Green
  • Time
  • Tuesday