Ben Sollee Quotes

The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind.

Ben Sollee

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• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • People
  • Different
  • Change

• Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Big

• The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Long
  • Humanity
  • Survival

• The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Money
  • Business
  • Food

• It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Great
  • Together
  • Band

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • History
  • View

• Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • You
  • Always

• I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • World
  • Music
  • Man

• I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Fun
  • Friend
  • Working

• Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Where
  • Fourth

• For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stress

• For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Together
  • Freedom

• This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Time
  • Real
  • Political

• Make your work deeper and better than those before you, and eventually someone will notice. If you don't think the work is better than what you've seen, then go back until it is.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Work
  • Think
  • Better

• I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• I think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating counselor who, at your bidding for advice, says, 'What do you think?' I think that's some of what the culture critic Greg Tate meant by art leaving a 'metaphysical stain.'

  

  Aunjanue Ellis
  • Art
  • Job
  • Culture

• Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Love
  • Art
  • Process

• I'm a very outside-the-box kind of guy.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • Guy

• You need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home. The sport, your rivals, the tyres, your motorcycle, everything changes so instead you need to work more to be stronger. If you don't, you're finished.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • World
  • Work
  • Home

• The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind.

  

  Ben Sollee
  • Art
  • Reason
  • Choice