Ben Affleck Quotes
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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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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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
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I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
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I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
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I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.
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There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
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I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.
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I feel horrified and sad and a great deal of empathy and lots of frustration.
