George Benson Quotes
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.
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Prince Charles has his foibles, but he is not a crook, not a bully, and not a hypocrite.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I had given up around 1950 any ambition of making a career as an artist.. .I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!
