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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: british
Birth: December 21, 1804 - April 19, 1881

Topics

Life Opportunity Know Seize Knowing

I don't want to be considered a leader based on what people think goes on in the clubhouse.

Leader People Think Want Goes Based

If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.

Good Beautiful You Everything Film

Of course Brexit means that something is wrong in Europe. But Brexit means also that something was wrong in Britain.

Jean-Claude Juncker

Wrong Europe Something Brexit Means

If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.

School You Up Level Keep Get

There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

Martin Scorsese

Face You Down Enemies Sit Deal

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Good Evil Devil Complicated Angels

I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.

Time Win Distance Go Three Everyone

I think that not being proactive is a good thing. I like life to unfold on its own.

Life Good Think Proactive Own Being

I did a lot of violent junk just because I needed the money - alimony movies, you might call them - and then I decided to start turning down the junk scripts and wait for something better, no matter how long.

Money Wait Start Better Long You

It's a lot easier to gain traction when there is such a great proliferation of Internet access. The velocity at which some of these startups are gaining traction is mind-boggling. Companies like ShoeDazzle, Stella & Dot, Gilt, Groupon - these companies are going from zero to hundreds of millions in revenue in three years.

Great Internet Three Years Going

I still think it's weird that people are interested in what I like and what I represent.

Antoni Porowski

People Think Weird Still Interested

Gun rights advocates - many whom also believe that the US constitution is divinely inspired and that the rights it enumerates are God-given - face a conundrum. Their very insistence that the government not restrict guns in public spaces or limit their sales in any way also obviously inhibit other Americans' rights as covered by the US constitution.

Government Believe Constitution Face

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