Ben Mikaelsen Quotes
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
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It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.
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Success is overrated.
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People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.
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Up above Aliens hover Making home movies For the folks back home Of all these weird creatures Who lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves And live for their secrets.
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I do what I love for a living, and I also get to build BMX bikes in my spare time.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take this trend as an internal reaction of art against itself? … No ordinary object insists on being taken for an ordinary thing, but a work that does so betrays itself by this very effort. The function of art in such a case is to reproduce the difference of art. But the mere fact that art seeks to cancel this difference and fails in its effort to do so perhaps says more about art than could any excuse or critique.
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When the ground is torn up, that’s when you plant seeds.
