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A. C. Benson Quotes

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: April 24, 1862 - June 17, 1925

Topics

Good You Important More Knowing

Sitting there clapping and smiling... it's difficult. You're like, 'Don't worry about it, you just double faulted, you just played a really dumb point. Keep positive.' Then more clapping. That would annoy me as a player.

Positive Me Worry Smiling You Dumb

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

Ignorance People Play Being Able

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Beauty I Am Tough You Perfect Place

You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.

Work You Prosperity Way Borrow Your

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

Stephen Ambrose

War Optimism World Cold Atomic Bomb

Maybe there is something specifically Scandinavian that comes out of the long, dark winters - you have to learn to laugh at misery, in a way.

Stellan Skarsgard

Laugh Learn Long You Dark Way

The first years when I came to New York, everything was too big and too much. For me, it was too difficult here, but bit by bit, it became one of my favorite places.

New York Me Too Much New Difficult

There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don't know if Samsung would stop us.

Good Good Things Wish Apple Stop

There's always apprehension whenever I launch anything, it seems. When I launch a tour, people are always, 'Oooh, is this gonna work?' And when I launch an album: 'Ooh, is this gonna work?' Or a new video. 'Really?' It's always like that - but I've always acted on the impulse that I have nothing to lose.

Work People Lose New Nothing Launch

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

Culture People Nation Belong Things

When I try to be funny, it always makes me more nervous that I'm trying too hard, and then my brain that already thinks too much jumps into hyper drive, and I light-speed start talking 'Star Trek' to someone who's talking 'Star Wars.' Anyway, it doesn't work out usually when I 'try' to be funny.

Work Funny Me Brain Drive Start

'White Material' is about courage and craziness.

Courage White Craziness Material

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