Ben Affleck Quotes
I'm not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I've been able to continue one with (Gwyneth Paltrow) that's really valuable.
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I just want to do my job.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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I just want to keep working with great actors and try to be good at what I do.
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There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.
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I grew up feeling Israel is very important, and I'm very supportive of Israel. At the same time, I think you can be really supportive of Israel and not look at it as a black-and-white situation.
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Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.
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I'm not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I've been able to continue one with (Gwyneth Paltrow) that's really valuable.
