Ben Affleck Quotes
The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.

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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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I get a great high from writing.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.
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Ultimately, the goal is to use acquisitions to compress time on product development and get people on the team, especially in senior roles, who can help build out areas of the company they have experience in.
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What we do is service a story first, and then you figure out how to pay for it later. If the narrative isn't your primary focus, then the movie is going to become diluted, and you don't have a movie that is as good as it could be, so it probably won't make as much money.
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I never really try to watch the movie of the things I've been in.
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The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.