Ben Affleck Quotes
I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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Strenuously competitive parents may indeed produce high-achieving grownups, but it’s in the nature of things that high-achieving adults are likely to become frustrated and embittered old people, once the rug is pulled out from under their occupation.
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The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.
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The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people.
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I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
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I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
