Ben Schwalb Quotes
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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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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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
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I prayed every night that God would keep my family safe. But as far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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I like the honesty about direct selling because it openly tells people the way to get rich is residual income: Get paid tomorrow for something you did yesterday - and let it accumulate.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting.
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You can't be in love with a Google search.
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They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.
