#ted

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them. ↗

— Annette Bening

#awards #ceremonies #during #feet #husband

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#generated #incapable #into #irresponsible #judging

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#community #obey #off #people #rules

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact

It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#consistent #crimes #done #errors #more

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#big #causes #complicated #crime #know

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#assets #balance #bridges #built #debt

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#across #came #could #find #first

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today. ↗

— Tony Bennett

#billie #billie holiday #business #compared #followed

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing. ↗

— Warren Bennis

#being #control #cutting #doing #end