George Benson Quotes

My whole life, I've never worried about being No. 1, because that's the guy they've got to get out of there.

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• The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Song

• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Poverty

• In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Love
  • House
  • Things

• I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Daily
  • Start
  • Planning

• I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Work
  • Day
  • Teacher

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Being
  • Thing

• People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Career
  • Deaf

• Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • You
  • Find
  • Shopping

• I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Want
  • Know

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed-run over, maimed, destroyed-but they continued to play anyhow.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Time
  • Good
  • Children

• My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.

  

  Brenda Strong
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Value

• For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • School
  • American
  • Accepted

• It's hard for an athlete to quit what he's done his whole life.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Life
  • Done
  • Athlete

• There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.

  

  George Osborne
  • Real
  • Fear
  • Action

• My whole life, I've never worried about being No. 1, because that's the guy they've got to get out of there.

  

  George Benson
  • Life
  • Guy