Benjamin Barber Quotes
The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.
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I would like to remember all and be able to forgive everything - in due course!
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There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.
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Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.
