Ben Eine Quotes
A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
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I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
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Why should the residence of a preacher be untaxed? Useful citizens must pay taxes on their homes. Yet the Preacher - actually and notoriously the least useful member of the community - lives in a tax-free dwelling.
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Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.
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A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.
