Benjamin Stone Quotes
I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I get homesick.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.
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Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.
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As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
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I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.
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My parents, God bless 'em, were very supportive of me and my decision to pursue acting. Their dream for me and my sister was that we graduate from college. And as soon as I fulfilled that, they were extremely supportive of what I wanted to do next. I will always be grateful to them for that, because I wouldn't be where I am today without their help and encouragement.
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I don’t believe in failure; I believe there are setbacks that are put into our path to teach us something and move us in a different direction.
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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
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God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
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I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it.
