George Benson Quotes
One thing all the way through the show to me is boring. I don't care how great the artist is. I find that if my audience is very young, and they want to hear very young songs, my show will be dominated by that. But there'll be some ballads here and there and some swing tunes.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.
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I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
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You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
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I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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WWE prepares you for so much other stuff in entertainment.
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I think Leopard is a much better system than Windows Vista … but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.
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My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?' By the time they left, they understood why, because I had done the second act of 'West Side Story' and the first act of 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' playing all the parts. In many ways, that's what I'm still doing. I'm just getting paid better.
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One thing all the way through the show to me is boring. I don't care how great the artist is. I find that if my audience is very young, and they want to hear very young songs, my show will be dominated by that. But there'll be some ballads here and there and some swing tunes.
