Ben Jaffe (Benjamin Jaffe) Quotes
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.
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The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
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There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
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To seek the highest good is to live well.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.
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Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.
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There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency... You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.
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I have butterflies in my stomach.
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Frewen and his colleague Ruth Lanius found that the more people were out of touch with their feelings, the less activity they had in the self-sensing areas of the brain. Because traumatized people often have trouble sensing what is going on in their bodies, they lack a nuanced response to frustration. They either react to stress by becoming “spaced out” or with excessive anger. Whatever their response, they often can’t tell what is upsetting them. This failure to be in touch with their bodies contributes to their well-documented lack of self-protection and high rates of revictimization and also to their remarkable difficulties feeling pleasure, sensuality, and having a sense of meaning.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
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Over 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.
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We've never lived more than a few miles from each other.
