Ben Affleck Quotes
Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I have hope. I have no expectations.
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It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
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A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men do - the men are not really interested in the cabinet making.
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Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
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Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.
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Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.
