Benjamin Barber Quotes
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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The story of 'A Dog's Purpose' flowed into me a set piece. The entire book was just there, as if I were connected to a streaming service, a novel wholly formed of character and plot. This has never happened to me before or since. I prayed for help and I got it. A gift.
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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
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Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.
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Andy Clark has several books you can find on Amazon, including 'Natural Born Cyborgs' and 'Being There.' I particularly recommend 'Being There' to anybody who still thinks the Cartesian separation of mind and body should be taken seriously.
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On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.
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I love my fans so much! I know I say it all the time, but I really appreciate all the things they have done for me.
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Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.
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I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!
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Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.
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Good walking leaves no track behind it.
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To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.
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Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
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People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.
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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
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As long as we don't have any big injuries, we should be fine. Start coming together, eventually we'll start winning.
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We must be loyal to the forum of our government.
