As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
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BEN BERGOR A good poet's made as well as born.
BEN JOHNSON Art has an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JOHNSON Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the t...
BEN HECHT Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h...
BEN JOHNSTON A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
BEN BECHT Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par...
BEN HECHT The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life...
BEN SWEETLAND When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to...
BEN JONSON Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JOHNSON They that know no evil will suspect none.
BEN JONSON As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
BEN HOGAN I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connecte...
BEN HECHT Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the wors...
BEN HECHT Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- w...
BEN KINGSLEY We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
BEN SWEETLAND Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
BEN BAYOL