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 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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Form follows beauty.
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It ain't over till it's over.
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One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's version matches up 100% with other people's, even if it's three or four people on a conference call.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to 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.
