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I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#committees #composition #hated #i #music

I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#cook #i #music #nice #play

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#aptitude #catastrophe #encourage #games #good

The different parts of my career seemed to take part in different rooms, albeit in the same house. It was just the way things were and I didn't actually think much about it at the time. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#actually #albeit #career #different #different parts

I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world. ↗

— Tony Bennett

#because #been #career #downs #far

One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment. ↗

— Steven Weinberg

#religious #science #intelligence

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools. ↗

— William Bennett

#bad #bankruptcy #declare #educate #educational

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there. ↗

— Chester Bennington

#audience #because #constantly #draw #every

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on. ↗

— Warren Bennis

#american #become #concern #demand #development

Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces. ↗

— Jack Benny

#forty #ham #hors #into #oeuvre