Ben Rector Quotes
It's crazy to think of myself as a musician. It's ridiculous that I get to do it, and I don't necessarily mean music. Getting to do something you really enjoy as a job is an incredible privilege, I think. I still don't really feel like a musician outside of the actual music.

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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
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I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
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People see images now more than they see movies.
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You can be beautiful with big breasts; you can be beautiful in your 40s. If you don't have perfect ankles, still you can move your legs in a certain way and look very sexy.
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I'm busier than I've ever been, but you can go through the lists of people who are bang up there one minute, and then just disappear.
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I love radio, but it's a very limited thing today. Everything has to be edited down to 3:59, and too bad if I didn't make my statement in three minutes and 59 seconds. Everybody's song has to make its point so quickly.
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I've gone up and down in my weight - I know my body. And for me, it's easy to go up or down.
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I wanted to be the best in the world.
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I'm really intimidated by beautiful people. Beautiful guys, especially.
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It's crazy to think of myself as a musician. It's ridiculous that I get to do it, and I don't necessarily mean music. Getting to do something you really enjoy as a job is an incredible privilege, I think. I still don't really feel like a musician outside of the actual music.