Benjamin Barber Quotes
Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.
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Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.
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I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved?
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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay.
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When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to.
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Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.
