Ben Casnocha
Related VANESSA CARLTON the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Ande... IAN GOMEZ I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore y... BERNIE MAC It was kind of awkward at first because a lot of us played against each other for a lot of years in ... JAKE WORLEY So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school ... JAMES EARL JONES My first two months have been amazing. I could still be in high school, trying to get 5-10. DESTINEE HOOKER Getting my field experience has been a little difficult in finding a time when I can go to a school ... EMILY CONSBRUCK I didn't date my wife in high school, but she was definitely by far the coolest woman there. She... ERIC MABIUS My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my clas... MIKE VOGEL ELI BROAD I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y... CHARLIE EBERSOL I've learned a lot, especially in my two college classes we have. Both are fun classes. Everything i... AMANDA JOHNSON A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... We do a lot in partnership with the W-2 program, teaching classes that help meet the requirements fo... LANA ANDERSON DAREN KAGASOFF I became used to it. At that time, you are 18 years old. You don't think it's real. I was just tryin... CHARLES PETERSON We went to a very small high school. It was, like, in a wooded house; it was a weird school. I hung ... CHELSEA PERETTI CHRIS COLFER I know what it's like to be bullied. During the first couple of years of high school, I got a bit of... NIKKI SANDERSON We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management ... PAT TRAVERS I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Fes... DANIEL STERN I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting ... SAM CLAFLIN In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to ch... CAROL W. GREIDER 'McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-tim... DUSTIN CLARE I came here kind of with a medal in the back of my mind, which is maybe a little high expectation fo... ANDY NEWELL It was fun and I learned a lot, but I knew I wanted to be in the classroom and teaching as well. A c... JENN NATALE DAVID CASSIDY I learned some big lessons on my first film, a horror film which was never released in the U.S., eve... JONATHAN LEVINE AMY LEE It was the best four years of my life. I definitely learned a lot both on-and-off the ice. DAVID MOSS We've got a lot of kids going through the conference tournament for the first time. We've got to kee... BART LUNDY I learned more in those two weeks than I did in four years of school. SAMANTHA ALDOM CHRIS COLFER It was very important. The last two years we didn't do to well, so this is my first year ever going ... JASON COCKRELL My plan was I just knew, I think the first time I was in a high school play, and I liked the feeling... DAVID HEDISON I got my first pilot lessons for my 16th birthday, ... I was scared the first time I tried it, but I... ERIC HOFFMAN ALY RAISMAN Just a lot of head games with myself. It took me a little longer, but it definitely paid off. ... I ... JOEL KWIATKOWSKI HENRY ROLLINS It was definitely a lot different. Coming straight up through middle school to starting in high scho... COREY BLACK Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a litt... RONNIE JAMES DIO I knew it would be tough (after the career-high game), that there would be a lot of focus on me. I g... RICKY HICKMAN I was always pretty competitive. But I know that I didn't learn everything I've learned until I was ... ANGIE MYERS I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a... ABIGAIL WASHBURN The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was alw... JUSTIN VERNON RABIH ALAMEDDINE DAISAKU IKEDA RASHIDA JONES I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that wa... DAVID BOLINSKY If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon ... GARRETT CAMP Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior y... MAIARA WALSH I think I've learned over the last couple of years a little bit better which way to prepare. I think... BRIAN DAUBACH I have had a great time in high school, and I'm going to miss it a lot. At the same time, I'm lookin... DEREK HOELLEIN I think with the lack of success in the last two years, it's very important for us to win a regular-... DREW PEARSON I think with the lack of success in the last two years, it's very important for us to win a regular-... JEFF PEARSON BO JACKSON I thought we golfed a lot better in this tournament than we did at the SPC. We were a little intimid... JEFF EDWARDS LES BROWN A.J. DARKHOLME I went to [Kettle-Moraine High School], 20 miles outside the city [in Wales, Wis.], and I've stayed ... JOE RANDA I went into last year without any anticipation of how I was going to do. I wanted to see how the who... CODY IRWIN That's a match I really wanted. I'd never beaten Justin before - in high school or in Little League ... BRANDON LOCOCO I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know, like most kids do in track and things. ... JEFF FISHER DEYTH BANGER That, and my first real serious boyfriend, kind of ended my high school running career. That was pre... LYNN LAFREE I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wan... JOHN TESH Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit... ANTHONY FAUCI I've been kind of in favor of a new high school, but I can't see having two high schools with 500 ki... KAREN EYRICH I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my fac... CATHY FREEMAN My mentality is just a little different now, because in high school I had to do a lot of scoring, ..... MARIO CHALMERS Most CPAs do between 45 to 50 percent of their work in two months out of the year. It makes for an e... MARK ALBRECHT It's definitely some good momentum. We won by 14 points, but two of my girls scratched out
and th... JOE RINALDO WENDY COPE JACK CANFIELD When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never se... FLORENCE HENDERSON When I got into high school, my favorite artist was definitely Janet Jackson. RUTINA WESLEY I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first... SID BERNSTEIN I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 19... TIM FERRISS I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 19... TIMOTHY FERRISS JOHN LEGEND We continue to make history. Two years ago we reached the pinnacle of Texas high school football, an... JEFF CORDELL JONAH HILL We hear a lot about high anxiety today, but I'm not sure we live in a more stressful world. Life has... DR. CECIL WILSON I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore yea... CHAD LINDBERG A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my seco... JASON WU It's not that much different, because he was my high school coach too. But it does make it a little ... MARIO CHALMERS To make multiple phone calls is not only a burden, it is financially stressful. LORI TODARO I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never l... MAGDA APANOWICZ Rip originally said he didn't want two days in between, but this is a blessing. We've got a little b... ARNIE KANDER AVI PETER FALK CAMERON RUSSELL I had a walk-off grand slam in high school against Royal, but it is definitely a little bit more spe... CODY CIPRIANO It was the first (home tournament) of my high school career and the last of my high school career, s... BOBBY GARCIA The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we wer... GLENN FREY KATY MIXON DALLAS ROBERTS Ever since I started swimming in high school, my most major goal was to make state. That's a humongo... BEN RUSSELL The Big 12 is a physical conference, so I just need to get stronger, ... Coming out of high school, ... MARIO CHALMERS
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Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman. BEN CASNOCHA I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. BEN CASNOCHA Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral a... BEN CASNOCHA Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions. BEN CASNOCHA Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible. BEN CASNOCHA Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking. BEN CASNOCHA I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else. BEN CASNOCHA I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something. BEN CASNOCHA I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an ent... BEN CASNOCHA I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work. BEN CASNOCHA BEN CARSON BEN VEREEN BEN CARSON I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at tha... BEN MENDELSOHN I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved ... BEN MENDELSOHN The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f... BEN MENDELSOHN My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormo... BEN MENDELSOHN I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin... BEN MENDELSOHN Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor. BEN MENDELSOHN Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus... BEN MENDELSOHN I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo... BEN MENDELSOHN 'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind... BEN MENDELSOHN The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of... BEN MENDELSOHN I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ... BEN MENDELSOHN I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou... BEN MENDELSOHN The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f... BEN MENDELSOHN Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles. BEN MENDELSOHN I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot. BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see... BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming. BEN MENDELSOHN The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live... BEN MENDELSOHN Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got. BEN MENDELSOHN I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl... BEN MENDELSOHN You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind... BEN MENDELSOHN You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke... BEN MENDELSOHN As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there. BEN MENDELSOHN It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening. BEN MENDELSOHN I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you... BEN MENDELSOHN BEN OKRI BEN SHAPIRO BEN BERNANKE Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it. BEN ZOBRIST People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as... BEN MEZRICH BEN GOLDACRE Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ... BEN HUH One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback. BEN SILBERMANN BEN OKRI BEN CARSON BEN CARSON BEN SCHNETZER BEN SHAPIRO BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci... BEN WHISHAW BEN PARR BEN BERNANKE Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see... BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar. BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics... BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while. BEN MARCUS BEN SHAPIRO BEN SHAPIRO BEN SHAPIRO BEN SHAPIRO BEN SHAPIRO BEN SHAPIRO BEN SHAPIRO BEN SHAPIRO I love bummer songs. BEN GIBBARD BEN CARSON BEN AFFLECK Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha... BEN SHAHN BEN SHAPIRO BEN NELSON From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter. BEN PLATT BEN SHAPIRO BEN GOLDACRE BEN CARSON BEN AFFLECK BEN BERNANKE BEN AFFLECK We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and... BEN FOSTER BEN JOHNSON BEN HECHT I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human... BEN SILBERMANN BEN HECHT BEN CARSON BEN KINGSLEY BEN JONSON BEN JONSON BEN JONSON BEN JONSON BEN JONSON BEN JONSON BEN JONSON 'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.' BEN FOUNTAIN BEN OKRI BEN PARR BEN BERNANKE BEN BERNANKE BEN BERNANKE There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ... BEN HARNEY BEN JONSON BEN HECHT BEN CARSON BEN SWEETLAND You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas... BEN HARPER BEN CARSON BEN SWEETLAND We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives. BEN WEININGER BEN STEIN BEN KINGSLEY BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN STEIN I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t... BEN AARONOVITCH BEN JONSON BEN STEIN BEN JONSON BEN JONSON Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin. BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine. BEN FRANKLIN It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work... BEN LINDSEY than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver. BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something ha... BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something h... BEN LINDSEY BEN CARSON BEN JOHNSON BEN BROWN BEN OLIVEIRA BEN OKRI BEN CARSON BEN JONSON BEN JOHNSTON BEN SWEETLAND BEN HERBSTER BEN STEIN BEN HECHT BEN VEREEN BEN JOHNSON BEN JOHNSON BEN JONSON BEN KINGSLEY BEN HOGAN BEN JIPCHO BEN JONSON BEN JONSON BEN ELTON BEN BERGOR BEN JOHNSON BEN JOHNSON BEN HECHT BEN JOHNSTON BEN JONSON BEN BECHT BEN HECHT BEN SWEETLAND BEN JONSON BEN JOHNSON BEN JONSON BEN HOGAN BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN KINGSLEY BEN SWEETLAND BEN BAYOL BEN ELTON BEN STEIN BEN ELTON BEN JONSON BEN ELTON BEN JOHNSON BEN JOHNSON BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN JOHNSON BEN JONSON BEN JONSON BEN STEIN BEN STEIN BEN JONSON BEN STEIN Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would ... BEN MANSKI Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dange... BEN MANSKI BEN JONSON BEN OKRI BEN OKRI BEN SWEET BEN HOROWITZ BEN JONSON BEN JONSON BEN JONSON I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you BEN FOLDS
I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really t... 
The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, tak... 
I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain. 
There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get o... 
Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m... 
That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years-in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do... 
Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone... 
I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it w... 
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I ... 
Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends ... 
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... 
In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it... 
It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I stil... 
Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a... 
When you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, don’t afraid to burn the haystack to save yourse... 
Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure. 
In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot... 
For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I c... 
I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of si... 
I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the firs... 
In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I f... 
The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, a... 
My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch. 
My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right betwee... 
I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of hi... 
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names... 
If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge... 
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ... 
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st... 
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. 
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ... 
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare... 
I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b... 
Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. 
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the... 
Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin... 
Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid... 
President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ... 
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If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would... 
We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for... 
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. 
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t... 
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor... 
This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha... 
A third Cato has dropped from the skies. 
A countenance inconceivably forbidding. 
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Be... 
The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduce... 
Happiness is a journey not a destination. 
Success is a journey, not a destination. 
No one will do it for you. 
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort... 
Force works on servile natures, not the free. 
Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... 
We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda... 
Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. 
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st... 
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. 
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done. 
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. 
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first. 
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv... 
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,... 
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. 
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. 
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture ... 
The greatest success, is successful self acceptance. 
Changes start occurring when budgets are cut. 