Ben Maher (Benjamin Richard "Ben" Maher MBE) Quotes
The best horses walk through the gates and they grow and rise to the occasion. They feel like they can do anything and that gives the rider confidence in return.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
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More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.
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When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'
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There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.
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We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.
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Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
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To find out where the origin of symmetry is would be to find out if God exists.
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Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
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If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?
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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
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A lot of people who don't have anything collect dogs; it's kind of a symbol of having something.
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You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.
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Men invent means and methods of coming at God's love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God's presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him?
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If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.
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The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.
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We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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The idea of being associated with Bollywood prompted me to get into DVD distribution.
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The best horses walk through the gates and they grow and rise to the occasion. They feel like they can do anything and that gives the rider confidence in return.
