Ben Affleck Quotes
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
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From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
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I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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The Christian world, I discovered, was like the captain and crew of a vessel on the ocean without a compass, and tossed to and fro whithersoever the wind listed to blow them. When the light came to me, I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness...
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You get old, you slow down.
