Ben Sollee Quotes
I felt like I was cheating myself of those communities and cheating the audience because I wasn't able to know them. That's what the bikes did, without me having to put any arbitrary philosophy on what it was supposed to be. It enabled human connection.
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It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!
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Ultimately love is everything.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
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Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.
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Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.
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I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.
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I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park.
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I don't know what's best for other people.
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I remember playing the Mad Hatter in a school play and feeling very comfortable in the character.
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Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.
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I have neither time to live nor to write. I am therefore cheating my art by stealing a few evening hours to write this most inadequate and negligent reply to the courteous and elegant letters of yours.
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The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.
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Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that's going to make me that much stronger at the end of the game. My pitching philosophy is simpe. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.
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Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.
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I felt like I was cheating myself of those communities and cheating the audience because I wasn't able to know them. That's what the bikes did, without me having to put any arbitrary philosophy on what it was supposed to be. It enabled human connection.
