Ben Gillies Quotes
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
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Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.
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I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
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Iran can never get a nuclear weapon, and it never will as long as I have anything to say about it.
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President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
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When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.
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The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.
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I set up my own trading center in my Cabot dorm room... with my computer, my fax machine, and my telephone.
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I think the institutions, principles, norms, and traditions that make the United States of America genuinely exceptional are at serious risk. It has been hard to think about anything else.
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We were a duo on tour, but it was his music and his songs. I was kind of his Vanna White/singing partner/torch-song singer. I was the straight man to his funny man.
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Darker music turns you into a hardcore motherfucker!
