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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Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.
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The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.
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To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.
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Good leaders don’t wait for official permission to try out a new idea. In any organization, if you go looking for permission, you will inevitably find the one person who thinks his job is to say “No!” It’s easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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Lean gives you such stomach pain. I'll never forget the time I was at South by Southwest and had to do all these shows, and I sitting on the couch curled up, hours of pain...That wasn't the moment I quit, that was the moment when I said I need more.
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If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.
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The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
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The pursuit is everything, the doing of it, the expressing, not the outcome, but the creation of it.
