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Robert Benton Quotes

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: September 29, 1932

Topics

Yourself Think Slow Feeling Horrible

I am not a nationalist in any way, and I hate flag waving, and I don't think much good has come out of nationalism. I am proud of Scandinavia in the sense that we have actually managed to create a very tolerant and human society, which is very livable.

Stellan Skarsgard

Good Hate I Am Society Proud Think

Mothers are so awesome. They do so much. They wear so many hats and have very passionate relationships with their kids, and with life, and I think it's a real balance having your own existence and then being this responsible, kind of loving person in someone else's life or several other people's lives.

Life Balance People Think Someone

The way I like to think about it is, even though I started music early - I started in classical music - it wasn't until I discovered jazz that I really fell in love with music and realized this was what I wanted to do for a living.

Love Music Think Early Living Jazz

There have been a couple specific instances where I've felt like I couldn't survive without interacting with a certain person. I've been involved with some pretty manipulative people who have told me the same thought: that I can't live without them.

Live People Me Survive Thought Same

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Life Wisdom Health Action Energy

I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.

Look Same Years Should Did Nor

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

People You Know Never Up Obstacle

I don't support gay marriage, but I also don't support a constitutional amendment banning it. However, I do support same sex unions that would give gay couples all the rights, privileges and protections of marriage.

Marriage Support Sex Gay Unions

I listen to podcasts while I run in Boise's foothills.

Run Listen While

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Patriotism Society Hatred Nation

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Gustave Flaubert

Facts Rule Use Which Disbelieve

Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.

Father Remember Born Point West

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