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Ben Hecht Quotes

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 28, 1894 - April 18, 1964

Topics

Time World Reading Trying Hand Tell

I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of.

Jessica Chastain

Sick Unknown Everyone

I don't see how English as we use it in Europe can be revivified. It's like Latin must have been in about A.D. 300, tired and used up. All one can do is press very hard stylistically to make it glow.

Tired Glow Hard See Europe Up

I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

People Detail Think Remember Enjoy

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

Music Writing Always Been Interested

Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.

Character Look I Can Go Actor Way

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

Roger Bannister

Feeling Three Up Well Climbing Been

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.

Children Football Born Country

I will be the first to say that it is always difficult to get monetary policy just right. But the Fed's analytical prowess is top-notch, and our forecasting record is second to none.

Say Will Difficult First Right Get

Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

Good Me Stand Smoking Fat You

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

Hate Thinking Real Necessary Some

You don't want to be in a relationship with someone who's scared of you.

Relationship Someone You Want Scared

Coming from 'V' into 'Homeland' was a really big change and the best gift as an actor you can get - which is to transform so drastically from one genre to the next, from lizard to human being!

Morena Baccarin

Change Best Gift You Actor Human

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