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More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC -
Changing is for weirdos.
NIALL HORAN -
I’d like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It’s part of the hand you’re dealt. It’s a challenge-and I’m not atypical.
BARBARA FELDON -
I truly believe that we amount to what we contribute to the world, But lately, everyone seems more concerned with taking.
J.S BROWN -
I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of that heritage to which I remain loyal. That is Barack Obama’s strength.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY -
You’re either living in the problem or you’re living in the solution
BOB PROCTOR -
I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
LOU HOLTZ -
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Call it ‘nationalism’ when you affix a flag to your car, and leave the word ‘patriotism’ for your efforts to make this country a kinder, more egalitarian place, and one that is less dangerous to the rest of the world.
BARBARA EHRENREICH -
The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say ‘we’ll let it go this time,’ you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.
BILL KURTIS -
You put deadlines on people you really don’t want, because that’s how you feel about them.
AL LEITER -
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
JOHN DRYDEN -
I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
A. J. JACOBS -
When something that can never quite be reenacted comes to an end (and all moments are that way),
BOB BENSON