Ben Fong-Torres Quotes
No matter how close we got to a station or a disc jockey ... they could disappear into the ether without so much as a wave goodbye or a farewell song.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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It is bad if you praise, and worse if you reprove a thing, I mean, if you do not understand the matter well.
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.
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I think realising that you're individual and unique is really amazing.
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I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.
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I have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with merchandise, surprisingly. But I do make money by just having my songs in the background of television shows or in commercials or movie trailers. That's been really good.
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We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.
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I'm never happier than in the bed.
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I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven't been grave challenges facing newspapers.
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Greece is not an easy country to do business in.
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There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.
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I try to tell the truth in my lyrics; write good melodies and make hard beats. So, basically, I just combine hip-hop with melody. That's how I classify myself.
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I have friends who read my books in Greek.
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I am two different people. What you see on the court is just natural for me. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have always said 'C'mon' purely to fire myself up. Off the court, I am a lot shyer. I stick to my team and my family and people I trust.
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It's really hard for a lot of men to have the woman accomplishing more than them.
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Hard times always lead to something great.
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There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
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A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.
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I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, 'I hope you don't regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.'
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You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure.
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No matter how close we got to a station or a disc jockey ... they could disappear into the ether without so much as a wave goodbye or a farewell song.
