Ben Gillies Quotes
Before we go on stage, all we really do is warm up usually... do some stretches, and drink something that makes you hyper like coke -- plenty, heaps and heaps of coke -- or just caffeine.
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
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That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture.
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I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.
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I am always looking for options that yield something unexpected.
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I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.
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Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
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The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.
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For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
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For filming, we have to wear a lot more makeup than we usually would. At night, I have to go home and take off all the makeup and take my hair out from my bun and just get out of the dancewear and everything.
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The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.
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It is important that the right of Israel to exist should be respected and also the viable Palestinian authorities, in terms of political and financial situation, be supported so that both can live side by side in peace and security. That is a two-state solution.
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Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
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Although we should not love our friends for the good that they do us, it is a sign that they do not love us much if they do not do us good when they have the power to do so.
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The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.
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At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.
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Before we go on stage, all we really do is warm up usually... do some stretches, and drink something that makes you hyper like coke -- plenty, heaps and heaps of coke -- or just caffeine.
