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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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.
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I have a promptness problem. I am a promptness-free zone.
