Ben Maher (Benjamin Richard "Ben" Maher MBE) Quotes
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I'm just basically a workaholic.
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Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.
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One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
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It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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To be a Southern Ground artist, you have to be a lifer. It's not about winning a karaoke contest or a television show to become famous. It's about really paying your dues. It's people I'm fans of and want to help in the business.
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The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is of value to you.
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Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce que nous sommes:Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autres hommes.
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It's nice to know that people are paying attention to you on the other side of the ball, but it's also kind of sad because you feel like you're a man that's being hunted down by some vicious animal. I feel they're going to come after me and do whatever they can to shut down the run, and that makes a difference with me in going out and doing my job.
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[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.
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It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World
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My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.
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Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
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Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.
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We came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic as numbered corpses.
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They British people told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.
