Ben Kweller Quotes
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
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I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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Rihanna is always on my playlist. I think she pumps you up and gets the day going. I also love - and I know this doesn't sound like a workout album - the Lumineers, lately, and Taylor Swift.
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PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.
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Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
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It's up to me if I decide to do what I think is right.
