Ben Aldridge (Benjamin Charles Aldridge) Quotes
The pursuit is everything, the doing of it, the expressing, not the outcome, but the creation of it.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
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Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---
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We're not amazed, to say the least. We are enthralled by it, and it's a beautiful thing to see, but it's something that we've grown accustomed to over the years.
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You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.
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Who's gonna dare to be great?
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Whether it's one scene or 15 scenes in a film, whether it's the lead or a cameo part, if I don't find it interesting, I tend not to do it. You never really know what it is. It could be a one-scene part. I remember I read the one scene in Crash and was asked to do it. I was like, "Absolutely!" There's no formula for how something has to be. I always try to keep it that way.
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Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.
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The pursuit is everything, the doing of it, the expressing, not the outcome, but the creation of it.
