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
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
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 -
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 -
All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
Rachel Dratch -
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 -
Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
Abby Wambach
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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 -
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 -
Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
Narendra Modi -
For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
Barney Frank -
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 -
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
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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 -
Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.
Malcolm Turnbull -
Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!
Jack Paar -
Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
J. K. Simmons -
Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
Nathalie Sarraute -
The world is rapidly getting 'Ahmadinejadized,' if I'm allowed to make a joke. (20 November 2006)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
Logic -
I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.
Jesse Eisenberg -
As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.
Thomas Sowell -
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
Radhanath Swami -
A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is the journey that makes or unmakes you.
Nicolas Bouvier -
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