Ben Affleck Quotes
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
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I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
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An honest, bold, loyal, and within its limits extremely highbrow attempt to produce through common ownership a society of the Free and Equal, produced a tyrant and a totalitarian state;…
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Signing bonus? Just give me a contract. I'll sign for free.
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I'm trying to teach my children not to cry. That's the big thing. No crying. Because I think we can all agree that crying is, for the most part, for sissies. If my team loses, I'm going to cry. And I'm going to want my kids to see me crying. Not because I think sports are so important, but because I bet so much money on the game that we'll probably lose the house if my team doesn't win. That's something to cry about.
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I know for an actual fact that the things I say or that my brothers say on the mic are valid for life. What we say, if you're smart you get it, if you're stupid, you learn about 3 years later.
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I have a promptness problem. I am a promptness-free zone.
