Ben Affleck Quotes
I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.
 
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	I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.   
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	I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.   
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	The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.   
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	Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.   
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	When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.   
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	Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.   
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	The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.   
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	As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.   
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	I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.   
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	As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.   
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	I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.   
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	More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.   
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	It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.   
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	Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.   
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	In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.   
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	There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.   
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	I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.   
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	My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.   
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	Once you figure out what your passion is, surround yourself with like-minded people who can help you grow.   
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	'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.   
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	You worldly-minded people are most unfortunate! You are surrounded with sorrows and troubles overhead and underfoot and to the right and to the left, and you are enigmas even to yourselves.   
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	A lot of people have difficulty wrapping their heads around what VR is good for. And the direction people go first is wrong. The wrong place is always: How can we do something we've done before, but on this?   
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	We were so influenced not only by country music but by the rock bands of the '80s. Our focus was to bring in something different. Country music already had a George Strait and Alabama. We wanted to put some pop music in our show.   
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	I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					