Ben Sollee Quotes
It's funny, people often ask me, "Why do you do bike tours where it takes three times the effort and you make one-third of the money?" My answer is that I'm trying to do it ethically. What does that mean, exactly? That conflict is a big part of my art.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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To be is to do.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
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I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
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I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.
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Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.
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'Use yer heads! A barnyard goose tastes better 'an a wild one cause it don't use its muscles. The same oughta hold true for a giant's brains!'-Bruenor Battlehammer, explaining his new recipe in response to Drizzt's and Wulfgar's expressions of horror and disgust.
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I'm a horrible public speaker.
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Given the trendlines of digital publishing, where more and more large platforms are profiting from, and controlling, the works of individuals, I can't stress enough: Put your taproot in the independent web. Use the platforms for free distribution (they're using you for free content, after all). And make sure you link back to your own domain.
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Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.
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It's funny, people often ask me, "Why do you do bike tours where it takes three times the effort and you make one-third of the money?" My answer is that I'm trying to do it ethically. What does that mean, exactly? That conflict is a big part of my art.
