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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Don't stop short of your goal.
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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
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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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Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?
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The pursuit is everything, the doing of it, the expressing, not the outcome, but the creation of it.
