Ben Lee Quotes
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
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I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
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I hate the term 'philanthropist.'
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The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
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I was advised by my assistant that the women of the Senate don't do potlucks. To which I responded, 'Of course we do.'
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Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.
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That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.
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I watch a lot of TV and I got some new hair products.
