Ben Affleck Quotes
I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
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In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.
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I think Star City should have Unesco World Heritage status. It will need to be adapted a little bit and made more glamorous than it looks now, but it should definitely be protected for the future.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
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I want to be in a stable relationship and have kids by the time I'm 30.
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I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
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Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold whatever I could sell. I'm a good organiser.
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I've learned from being in the woods that titles don't mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words - even in Congress. I always look for the people who want to act - people who want to run the river or climb the mountain - even if they're not members of my political party.
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It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
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I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.
