Ben Bova Quotes
The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.
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Naked dudes are inherently funny.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.
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Islam is about finding your own space.
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It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.
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I bat righty.
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If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.
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When a child knows there's a secret, they don't know what it is, but they know it's there, and they know they're being lied to.
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I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed.
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I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.
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The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.
