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.
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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.
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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.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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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.
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'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.'
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I have loved music since I was a baby and had the chance to begin early. At 14 I had my first band, a quartet, and then many others until I was 19 playing Beatles, Rolling Stones, Mamas & The Papas, Crosby, Stills... today we'd call them "cover bands
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It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.
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Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.
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My whole life, I've never worried about being No. 1, because that's the guy they've got to get out of there.
