Eric Benet Quotes
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
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Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.
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I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.
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I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
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With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.
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Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts.
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My mandate...is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children.
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Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.
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A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
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I don't really do scales... I mean, I play parts of them, but then I bail and start playing parts of other things. The term 'scale' feels very scripted to me because I'm an improv player.
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Come, agree, the law's costly.
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My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it’s recorded.
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Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.
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I really don't chase songs. I get in the studio, I know what I gotta do; I'm pretty much programmed to do it.
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Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
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Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.
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I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting.
