Ben Weaver Quotes
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.
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People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
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When in doubt, do it.
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I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
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I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.
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There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.
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Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.
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The problem is that you can't really read a script saying, 'Hmmm, I'll just see what this is.' You have to go right into it; you have to get engaged with it, and once you are engaged, you want to do it! It's really difficult to get uninvolved.
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Even the bad things are better than they used to be. Bad music, for instance, has gotten much briefer. Wagner's Ring Cycle takes four days to perform while 'Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm' by the Crash Test Dummies lasts little more than three minutes.
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Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.
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I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.
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Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate.
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It ain't like midnight and cigarette smoke.It ain't like watered down whiskey and coke.I guess some things just don't mix like you hope.Like me and you.And diamond rings and old barstools.
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I've not been in a live-in relationship. But I've been exposed to various kinds of equations that can exist between people. When I came from Bangalore, it was black and white. Over the years, I've realised that there's more to what we see on a day-to-day basis. There are all kinds of relationships, all kinds of equations.
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Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
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The world is a diamond cut from our surprise.
