Ben Eine Quotes
Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.
Quotes to Explore
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
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In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.
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Keeping one's eyes open, listening, watching, being quiet, adopting some of the techniques of the psychoanalyst in talking to people, will bring you that surface from which something more comes.
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My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
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Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.
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I can only see it going one way, that's my way. How it's actually going to go I can't really say.
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Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.
