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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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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There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.
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The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
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Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?
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The pursuit is everything, the doing of it, the expressing, not the outcome, but the creation of it.
