Ben Gillies Quotes
I never really liked Minor Threat. Actually, I kind of thought they sucked. And then Daniel came into practice one day and said, 'Oh, let's play a song it's called Minor Threat.' And I just thought, 'I don't want to play that fucking song!' And then I said, 'Yeah, I will do it.' And then we were playing it. And it's, like, grand and I ended loving this song and started listening to more of their stuff. I love them and they are great.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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Some children's music is aimed just at kids, and it can be very childlike.
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I know we're all addicted to our smartphones, and I'll say, if I forget my smartphone, I go home and get it. And so understanding how to integrate that technology into the driving experience, both the front seat and the passenger seat and the back seat, I think is very important.
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The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
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When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind.
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I never really liked Minor Threat. Actually, I kind of thought they sucked. And then Daniel came into practice one day and said, 'Oh, let's play a song it's called Minor Threat.' And I just thought, 'I don't want to play that fucking song!' And then I said, 'Yeah, I will do it.' And then we were playing it. And it's, like, grand and I ended loving this song and started listening to more of their stuff. I love them and they are great.
