George Benson Quotes
The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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You can stroke people with words.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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There was a major restoration programme initiated by Lord Curzon. His efforts at the Taj Mahal have had a mixed reception. They are often judged to be largely benign, and they even received complimentary accolades from Jawaharlal Nehru. Post-colonial critics of the Raj have predictably been less willing to exonerate this exemplar of aristocracy.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
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My own experience has taught me not to underestimate the power of those who protest against cruelty. I'd also say that there may be a tendency to view the animal-rights opposition in somewhat distorted fashion as a new development, as the product of a very recent enlightenment about the rights due to animals.
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The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality.
