Ben Vereen Quotes

Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.

Ben Vereen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 10, 1946

Topics

JourneyExperienceDeathRestLearn

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Jesus Christ

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L.A. is a constellation of microclimates and microcosms, a library with dozens of special collections. A 20-minute drive can bring a temperature change of 15 degrees. Crossing an intersection can feel like crossing a national border.

Meghan Daum

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I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

Mike O'Malley

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My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

Lukas Foss

LoveMusicYourselfAdviceYouFind

In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

Lou Gramm

WorkRoadBetterEnoughYouCompany

I have a long list of things that make me mad.

Dick Cavett

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I've said this before: myself and Tommy Shelby, he's the most unlike-me character I have ever played.

Cillian Murphy

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We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.

Asif Kapadia

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Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Philip Zimbardo

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We never had a giant library or owned a lot of commercial characters the way most studios did. And since we didn't have a lot of internal resources, we had to find ways to be inventive and resourceful, which I think is a healthy way to run a good business.

Toby Emmerich

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I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it.

Mario Cuomo

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I'm still not aware that I'm good looking.

Jamie Dornan

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