Ben Eine Quotes
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I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.
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I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
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The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
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I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before.
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I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I've made.
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I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the outside, but is also good and noble on the inside in terms of character and in terms of purpose. And I think that's a fine description of the friendship that exists between the Greek people and the American people.
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The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time.
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I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.
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It was a wonderful thing to see the guys again.
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Do not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That's up to heaven.
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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
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There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
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The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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It's hard to live just by selling paintings.
